Cell data helps ID homicide suspect

With the help of cellphone data, security footage and a witness, Chattanooga police identified and arrested a suspect in the June 19 shooting death of 29-yearold Robert Gill, according to Hamilton County court records.

Gill was found unresponsive in a driveway in the 3200 block of South Street around 6 a.m. He had multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Video surveillance footage from Bayberry Apartments showed Gill and two other men, one of whom has been identified as 24-year-old Javonte Wynn, getting out of a red Pontiac G6 just before 3:30 a.m., court records state. Then, at about 5:17 a.m., the three men get back into the car and head east.

Later that day, a witness told police she was with Gill before he and the two other men left for Bayberry Apartments, court records show. At some point, Gill returned to where the witness was. Sometime between 4 a.m. and 5 a.m. Wynn and the other man returned and rushed Gill to leave again.

The witness said the second man called out to Gill about five times from the living room, court records state.

Both men left, and from 5:21 a.m. to 5:31 a.m., the witness was on the phone with Gill when she heard about six to seven gunshots, court records show.

The witness told police she heard two voices in the background during her conversation with Gill.

Police located the red Pontiac and found fingerprints matching Gill, Wynn and the second man “all over the vehicle.”

On June 25, investigators reviewed Gill’s cellphone data and found Wynn and the second man’s phone numbers. Investigators requested warrants for the locations of those two numbers and found they were both in the area at 5:30 a.m., when gunshots were reported. But, while the second man left by 5:36 a.m., Wynn stayed at the scene.

Wynn was arrested Sunday and charged with first-degree murder and possession of a firearm during a dangerous felony. His bond was set at $150,000, court records show.