Karoline Michelle Bradley

How they died

Deadly force

Police had received several calls about a woman pointing a gun at passersby and, later, about her firing shots at someone. Officer confronted the woman, who turned at him with a gun. He fired one shot, and she ran down the street. He followed her in her patrol car until she again turned toward him with the gun. Southwell fired two more times, and she fled into a motel complex. Other officers at the scene said she fired her gun at the officer. A man later told police she knocked on his motel room door asking if he could let her in. He did, and moments later he said she shot and killed herself. The man said he didn't know the woman.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Karoline Michelle Bradley, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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