One charged, two recovering in robbery, stabbing in Skyline, Ala.

Raymond Lawrence Talley
Raymond Lawrence Talley

A Woodville, Ala., man is jailed and two other men are recovering from stab wounds after a robbery this week near the town of Skyline.

Raymond Lawrence Talley, 24, was charged Thursday with two counts of first-degree robbery in the knife assault and theft of a vehicle Talley allegedly used to flee the crime scene Tuesday.

Officers from the Skyline Police Department and Jackson County Sheriff's Office found the two victims - 54-year-old Robert Clinton Owens and 51-year-old Anthony Jerome Shrader, both of Jackson County, Ala. - with stab wounds at a home on the 400 block of Manning Drive in Skyline.

Both men were initially treated at the scene before being airlifted to area hospitals for treatment of serious but non-life-threatening wounds. Talley, meanwhile, fled the scene in a Ford Ranger pickup truck he took from the home, authorities said.

At 8:24 p.m. CDT Tuesday, Scottsboro Police Department officers and sheriff's deputies spotted the truck traveling south on Alabama Highway 79 near County Road 114 in Scottsboro. Officers stopped the truck and took Talley into custody without incident, officials said.

Owens and Shrader are still recovering from their wounds, Jackson County Sheriff's Office Chief Deputy Rocky Harnen said Friday. One of the two men was released from a Chattanooga hospital and the other is still receiving treatment at a Huntsville-area hospital, he said.

"They do all know each other," Harnen said, but there is no known history of problems among the men. Investigators are trying to determine what led to the incident, the chief deputy said.

Harnen said Talley allegedly took the keys to another pickup truck on the property along with a cellphone before fleeing the scene ahead of officers' arrival.

Harnen said the first-degree robbery charges mean the defendant was armed with a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument or he caused physical injury to the victim during a theft.

Talley was booked on outstanding warrants charging him with domestic violence, harassment, criminal mischief and on a warrant revoking a previous bond related to one of the outstanding warrants.

Talley remains in the Jackson County Jail on a $20,000 bond.

Contact staff writer Ben Benton at bbenton@timesfreepress.com or 423-757-6569. Follow him on Twitter @BenBenton.

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