A man suspected of planting a bomb in the car of an employee at NHC Place in Cool Springs this weekend has been added to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation’s 10 Most Wanted List.
Mitchell Hunter Oakes is wanted by the Franklin Police Department, the U.S. Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation for Attempted 1st Degree Murder.
According to the bulletin from the TBI, Oakes on Sept. 10 2016, allegedly went to NHC Place, a nursing home in Franklin, and placed an active explosive device inside an employee’s vehicle.
Oakes is a convicted felon with a violent history and extensive knowledge of bomb making and weapons. Oakes should be considered armed and dangerous. He is currently wanted on unrelated felony charges out of Virginia.
Mitchell Hunter Oakes has been added to the TBI’s Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List and a $1,000 reward is being offered for information leading to his arrest.
In addition, Franklin Police and the ATF are offering a reward of up to $7,500 for information leading police to his whereabouts.
Call (615) 794-2513 if you know where he is.
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Officers responded to NHC Place at about 7:15 a.m. and quickly determined that a bomb was placed in an employee’s vehicle and discovered when she was attempting to leave work. The device was sophisticated and would have caused extreme injury or death if it had detonated as intended.
NHC patients were moved to a safe part of the complex, which then was locked down.
The components of the bomb Oakes is suspected of placing will be analyzed by the ATF at their Atlanta lab.
Oakes, 41, is 6’3”, 240 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. His location is currently unknown, but he may be driving a white sedan. Oakes has ties to Franklin, Crossville, Pikeville, and Cookeville, and an intensive search for him, by Franklin Police and federal authorities, is under way.
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