ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Sunday, October 13, 1996 TAG: 9610140078
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-5 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: NASHVILLE, TENN.
A Mount Juliet woman police believe was shot by a man responsible for a two-state crime rampage died Saturday.
Donetta Keyser, 46, died at Columbia Summitt Medical Center, a hospital spokeswoman said. Keyser underwent surgery Friday to remove a bullet fragment from her head.
Police are seeking Bradley Duane Osborne, 27, a Roland, Okla., native, in connection with the shooting. Police say Osborne, who has led a nomadic lifestyle, lived in Bristol, Tenn., for several months and had a driver's license with a Hermitage, Tenn., address.
Osborne is also a suspect in the slaying of his girlfriend in Virginia and the assaults of four other women.
Metro Nashville Detective Clifford Mann said witnesses saw Keyser's shooting outside a Hermitage laundromat Thursday.
He said the man jumped into a gold car and fled, then tried to run a motorist off the road. Mann said the motorist managed to control her vehicle and write down the tag number of the car - a gold 1981 Pontiac Phoenix registered to Osborne.
Sullivan County Sheriff Keith Carr in Blountville said Osborne shot and wounded a former girlfriend in an Abingdon, Va., motel room; tried to kidnap a woman Wednesday night at a Bristol, Tenn., convenience store; kidnapped a third woman from a Bristol coin laundry, raped her several times and took her car; and tried to abduct a fourth woman at an Elizabethton shopping mall.
About 4 p.m. Thursday, police found the body of Stacey Cook, a 22-year-old Bristol woman believed to be Osborne's girlfriend, in a remote part of nearby Washington County, Va. The woman was shot in the head.
Osborne allegedly told one of his victims that he had no intention of surrendering.
``He told her that when police catch him, it's going to be a question of who's going to be the quickest. He said he intended to go out in a blaze of glory,'' Carr said.
Osborne is about 5-foot-8, 160 pounds, with brown eyes and shoulder-length black hair.
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