Funeral For Young National Guard Member Who Was Murdered Is Friday

  • Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Ashley McKenzie
Ashley McKenzie

The funeral for a young National Guard member who was shot in the head at her home on Cambridge Drive on June 13 will be Friday.

Ashley McKenzie had just returned from an overseas deployment in the National Guard. She was in the Guard for about two years.

The Chattanooga Police Department responded to reports of shots fired in the Ridgewood Acres subdivision. Police located Ms. McKenzie suffering from a life-threatening gunshot wound to the head. She later died. She was shot once just after answering the front door.

No arrest has been made in the case.

The daughter of Terry and Veronica McKenzie, she was born July 7, 1995. Ms. McKenzie belonged to the 230th Sustainment Brigade in Chattanooga.

She was an assistant manager at “Footaction” at Hamilton Place Mall.

At an early age, she attended Mt. Calvary Baptist Church, and she later joined the New Sholar Avenue Baptist Church.

Her survivors also include a brother, Victor M. McKenzie; maternal grandmother, Jannie M. Harden; and paternal grandfather, Bill (Dorothy) McKenzie.

She will lie-in-state on Thursday after 12:30 p.m. at Taylor Funeral Home. The funeral service will be Friday at noon in the funeral home chapel with Pastor Kenneth Ware as the eulogist.  Burial will be in Lakewood Memory Gardens, East.

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