Chattanooga Police Department said 51-year-old Sgt. Tim Chapin was one of three or four officers who on Sunday answered a robbery alarm at 10:24 a.m. to the store at 5952 Brainerd Road.
The robber fired out the front door, then ran out a side door with police in pursuit. He then shot at police during the 200-yard pursuit. Chapin hit the man with his car, but the man got back up and fired.
Chapin was shot in the head and died in just moments.
Several officers returned fire and took the suspect down. Colorado records show Jesse R. Mathews recently was paroled on a robbery conviction.
His Facebook page shows a picture of him with his chest and upper arms covered in tattoos of handguns, knives, bullets and brass knuckles.
Chapin's usual table at Starbucks on Brainerd Road bore an empty coffee cup, a copy of the Times Free Press with the headline, “A city mourns,” and a hand-lettered sign: “This seat is closed out of respect for Officer Tim where he sat every day for the past two years.”
At Chapin’s church, Abba’s House Central Baptist in Hixson, the sermon was dedicated to the slain officer who had been a member for 22 years.
“The man who shot Tim Chapin — if he gets down on his knees and asks for forgiveness, he can get saved,” senior pastor Ronnie Phillips said. “We may send him to the chair afterwards.”
Colorado records show Jesse R. Mathews, 25, was convicted of robbery in 2003 in El Paso County, Colo., and sentenced to 20 years in prison. He had a parole hearing scheduled in March, according to Colorado Department of Corrections records. He is listed in state records as a fugitive inmate and authorities say he is wanted on three robbery warrants.
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