12/30/2019 HOUSTON — On Monday morning, Houston police released the name of the postal worker shot while delivering mail Saturday in west Houston.

HPD officials IDed the mail carrier as Adrian Jackson, 30.

Willie Ferguson, the head of the National Association of Letter Carriers, Branch 283, which includes Houston, told KHOU Monday afternoon Jackson is in “pretty good spirits.”

However, Ferguson said Jackson’s family does not want more information on or photos of Jackson released because the gunman is still loose, and they don’t know a motive.

Jackson was shot around 2 p.m. while delivering mail on Cedardale Street near Gessner.

“Kind of surreal,” said one neighbor identifying herself as Kathy. “It just didn’t make any sense.”

Kathy said she was laying in bed watching TV when she heard four gunshots, the same number reported by several other neighbors.

“Maybe a second later, a man is screaming out in pain, ‘Help me!’” recalled Bobby, another neighbor who opted to give his first name only.

A neighbor told KHOU the shooter was a white man with tattoos covering his face, neck, and arms, last seen wearing a white T-shirt and baggy shorts.

Police think the shooter drove off in a black Honda Fit. They said he also shot his gun at a nearby business but did not hit anyone.

source: ‘Completely surreal and random’: Neighbors baffled after mail carrier shot on duty