Jubal Grundy
A silver Chevy Malibu, a cyclist with broken arms, and missed child support were the subject of a heated preliminary hearing in Judge Lila Statom’s General Sessions Court on Tuesday. Jubal Grundy, 29, allegedly drove into a cyclist on Market Street in October 2018.
The victim recounted the events in front of the judge, attorneys, and the accused. According to the victim, he was cycling in the right side of the road when a silver Chevy blasted forward from behind him.
The victim said he was within arm’s length of the vehicle and was forced into the left-hand turn lane.
He said the driver yelled something at him, and he simply tried to “get the heck out of there.” The victim said he even “ran” a red light to get away from the situation. After crossing, the car accelerated and rammed into the cyclist, he said.
“I was struck so rapidly that the bike was basically taken out from under me,” said the victim, who rolled over the windshield and then fell onto the ground. He broke two arms, sustained several abrasions, and had difficulty breathing for the next few months after this. According to the victim, he saw several people in the car as he was on the windshield. The victim said he saw the driver and several passengers, including a woman and some children.
The car sped away, and an ambulance was quickly summoned. While the police report was dated at 3:50 p.m., it was generally agreed upon by the court that the incident happened at 3:30. The biker even said he was mostly certain the crash took place at 3:30, as he often checked his phone during his ride around the city.
An investigator said, after reading the traffic crash report and witness statements, he began to dig through a familiar database. This search sent him to a silver Chevy at Grundy’s residence, one he shared with several people. When the investigator took a trip to the address, he observed the car there with damage consistent with a vehicle which had run into a bicycle.
The investigator did admit that he did not interview the owner of the car (which was actually Grundy’s sister), or any other family member. He also did not pull cell phone information from any family member before obtaining an arrest warrant.
The investigator said he presented the victim with two different lineups when he did his research. He said the victim looked at the first lineup for “at least five minutes,” before saying the driver was not pictured. He noted that Grundy’s brother, who he shares several facial features with, was pictured in that particular lineup. The investigator said the victim looked at the second lineup for no longer than five seconds before immediately pointing out Grundy as the driver of the silver Chevy.
Grundy’s ex-girlfriend told Judge Statom her (at the time) boyfriend did not run through the victim. According to her side of the story, Grundy spent the entire day with her and her children before going to Juvenile Court to pay his child support. Grundy’s ex-girlfriend said she was driving a blue Hyundai at the time. She said he had neglected to pay earlier in the morning, and was thus arrested and taken into custody after going through security.
The prosecution seemed skeptical of her story, asking why she remembered the exact date and what she had done that day, when she could not recall what she did when she took him to pay child support the next time she took him to court. The defense attorney retorted that such a unique circumstance like her boyfriend being arrested would make the day a notable one.
A worker at the court told Judge Statom that Grundy had indeed been taken into custody, and that the process to get through security could take anywhere from 10 to 12 minutes. Documents showed Grundy was taken into custody around 4:00 in the afternoon. And thus, the prosecution and defense feuded about the timing of the events. The defense attempted to argue that the police report, started at 3:50, proved his client was not at the scene of the crime when the crash occurred. According to the defense, by the time the crash happened, Grundy was already at the courthouse and about to go into custody.
The prosecution disagreed, saying “He is cherry picking times” when confronted with that argument. The attorney said the report was started at 3:50, but that the actual incident happened several minutes beforehand. He said it was completely plausible for Grundy to race from Market Street to the courthouse in that time.
In the end, Judge Statom listened to both sides and decided there was probable cause in the case. She bound the case over to the Grand Jury, and kept the bond at the same amount it already was. He had been charged with failure to yield right of way, violating the bicycle safety three-foot rule, driving on a revoked license, and aggravated assault
Grundy, who has an extensive criminal record, was also arrested after a traffic incident in October 2016.
He and another man were arrested after shots were fired and there was a car and foot pursuit.
A Chattanooga police officer was in the vicinity of a shots fired call at the Mapco on Rossville Boulevard. Witnesses on the scene told officers the shots were fired from a four-door silver sedan.
Moments later, CPD officers at the intersection of Crescent Circle and East 30th Street saw a silver Hyundai Sonata pass by them at a high rate of speed. While officers pursued the vehicle they saw the passenger throw an object out the car window.
After pursuing the suspect vehicle for several blocks, the occupants stopped and fled on foot in the 3700 block of Chandler Avenue. A foot pursuit ensued ending with officers taking both men into custody. Officers identified the driver of the vehicle as validated Bounty Hunter Blood gang member DeKendrick Trammell, 22, and the passenger as Jubal Grundy. The vehicle the suspects were traveling in was found to be stolen out of Walker County.
Officers returned to the area of the shots fired called where they found multiple shell casings. Another officer returned to the 3000 block of Crescent Circle where he saw an object thrown from the suspect vehicle. There he located a Taurus 9MM handgun with an extended magazine and serial number filed off the firearm.
Charges filed on Trammell were evading arrest, tampering with or fabricating evidence, altering of item's permanent number, driving on revoked, suspended or cancelled license, theft of property, possession of firearm during commission or attempt to commit a crime, plus eight additional charges.
Charges filed on Grundy in that case were evading arrest, tampering with or fabricating evidence, altering of item's permanent number, theft of property, possession of firearm during commission or attempt to commit a crime, plus two additional charges.