The phrase "a resident reporting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is identifying themselves as a resident who is providing information or making a report about a situation or issue.
Example: "A resident reporting suspicious activity in the neighborhood alerted the authorities immediately."
Alternatives: "a local informing" or "a citizen notifying".
A resident reported seeing a "man in a cape" wearing a "hooded robe thing" distributing those particular pamphlets.
A bullet struck the man in the head as he stood near a window in his kitchen, a resident reported.
The General Accounting Office gave this example of the problems it found in many cases: "A resident reported to a licensed practical nurse that she had been raped in the nursing home.
The first body was found on Friday after a resident reported a foul smell, and the two others were found during a search on Saturday after interviewing the suspect, the police said.
One woman's body was found in East Cleveland on Friday after a resident reported a foul smell, and two other bodies were found during a search on Saturday, the police said.
On the evening of Oct. 20, 2014, police officers approached Mr. McDonald on the city's Southwest Side, prosecutors said, after a resident reported seeing him breaking into trucks and stealing radios.
No one would ever admit it, but there is probably some relief that there will never again be nights like the one last year when police arrested Cobain after a resident reported hearing the sounds of domestic violence.
A resident reported seeing parents wailing at the sight of their children's bodies at the hospital.
Officers had surrounded the house in Haines City after a resident reported suspicious activity at her neighbor's home.
While officers searched the area, a resident reported a suspicious man, which turned out to be Essakhan, outside of her third-story apartment on the 300 block of West Elk Avenue, Lightfoot said.
In one, a resident report had been scheduled to run an extra thirty minutes, because of the obscurity and mysteriousness of the case, which had remained a diagnostic puzzle for years.
