LOWNDES COUNTY, Miss. (WCBI)-A rural mail carrier is shot while delivering mail and three people of interests are in custody.
But Lowndes County authorities can’t release details because the investigation has been turned over to federal postal inspectors, who still were looking into the assault at this hour.
The three unnamed suspects were picked up just before 3 this afternoon in connection with the shooting of the mail man at the Providence Place housing development just before noon.
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Mail carrier shot in Columbus
COLUMBUS, Miss. (WTVA)– The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is offering a $20,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest for the shooting and armed robbery of a letter carrier in Columbus Thursday afternoon.