ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Sunday, October 27, 1996 TAG: 9610280081
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-3 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: LAKELAND, TENN.
A former carnival worker wanted in the deaths of two women was critically wounded during a gun battle with FBI agents Saturday, police said.
Bradley Duane Osborne, 28, was wanted in the slayings of women in Nashville and near Abingdon, Va.
Washington County, Va., Sheriff Kenneth Hayter said Osborne was taken to Regional Medical Center in Memphis, where he was listed in critical condition. But two spokeswomen at the hospital said they had no information on a Bradley Osborne.
Osborne, a drifter from Roland, Okla., is suspected of fatally shooting a 22-year-old Bristol, Tenn., woman believed to be his girlfriend. The body of Stacey Cook was found Oct. 9 in a remote part of Washington County, Va.
The same day, police in Nashville said Osborne shot church secretary Donetta Keyser of Wilson County. She later died.
Authorities also believe Osborne tried to kidnap a Bristol woman from a convenience store; kidnapped another woman from a Bristol coin laundry and raped her before taking her car; and tried to abduct a woman at an Elizabethton, Tenn., shopping mall.
Hayter said he called Holly Osborne in Oklahoma Friday night. She told him her son was on her call-waiting telephone feature. Her caller I.D. device displayed the telephone number from which he was calling.
Hayter had the number traced to Surplus Steel in northwest Shelby County. Shortly before 1 a.m. Saturday, agents of the FBI, TBI and Shelby County Sheriff's office went to the company and found Osborne in an outbuilding, Hayter said.
Authorities said Osborne open fired, wounding an FBI agent. Officers returned fire, hitting Osborne in the chest. The agent was treated at a hospital and released.
- Associated Press
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