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| Daughter Learns Inmate Father Died Days Before Reunion |
| By Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel |
| Published: 03/24/2003 |
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A Broward County jail inmate, who was run over by a detention deputy and killed March 12, was just days from being released and reunited with his daughter and grandchildren. They'd been apart for seven years. 'I have basically been searching for two years to find him,' Charlene Gray, 33, said last week from her aunt's home in Fort Lauderdale. 'I made contact three weeks ago. Yesterday, I made flight reservations to fly down here, and then I get the call that my dad was in an accident, and now he's gone.' Gray lost touch with her father, Charlie Osborne, seven years ago when they both moved from their home in New York. Gray settled in Atlanta with her husband and two children, and Osborne moved in with family members in Fort Lauderdale. Osborne, 62, was scheduled to be released March 17 after serving six months for cocaine possession. His sister, Zula Mae Osborne, told him during a recent phone call that his daughter had called looking for him. 'My object in all of this was to bring him home with me to live with me and my husband and kids in Georgia,' Gray said. 'I wanted to take him away from the element he was around.' Those dreams fell apart March 12 when a jail inmate called Zula Mae's house to say that her brother, who was assigned to a work crew, fell off a Broward Sheriff's Office dump truck on U.S. 27, and was run over. The family says they did not hear from anyone in the Sheriff's Office until they called the Sheriff's Office to confirm the information. Col. James E. Wimberly, executive director of the Sheriff's Office's Detention and Community Control department, visited the family March 13, but he said he could not provide any details about how Osborne was killed. He didn't even tell them what type of county vehicle ran over Osborne. Investigators have gotten conflicting statements from witnesses, she said, and are exploring several possibilities, including that Osborne fell off the truck and that Osborne was standing on the ground when Detention Deputy Frank Iovino, 58, ran over his legs. The injury caused severe bleeding and sent Osborne into cardiac arrest. He died Wednesday afternoon at Broward General Medical Center. Gray said she thinks her father fell from the truck because she saw him in the morgue and -- in addition to his legs being crushed -- he had road rash from the left buttock to the mid-thigh. |
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