The man shot the gun once at the downtown post office near Broadway and Lomas, according to police. He allegedly went after a supervisor with the firearm, but investigators said he missed.
Federal investigators with the Postal Inspection Service say the man who brought the gun to work is a mechanic in the vehicle maintenance department.
Investigators the man fired one shot but say at this point there’s “no evidence to suggest” that the man was targeting any other employees.
Employees could be seen working inside of the vehicle maintenance department Monday afternoon.
One employee who contacted News 13 on Monday says he saw it all happen and watched his co-workers wrestle the shooter to the ground when the gun was fired.
“There’s some kind of an dynamic that’s happening within the U.S. Postal Service that leads people to that,” said Rush.
The Feds still haven’t said if the man will be charged with any sort of crime for firing the gun. At a minimum, the Postal Inspection Service says the man could be charged with bringing a gun to a federal building. That could get him a year in prison.
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — Authorities say a postal employee is in custody after a shot was fired within the vehicle maintenance facility at Albuquerque’s main post office. Nobody was injured.
Postal Inspection Service spokesman Ed Trejo (TRAY’-hoe) says the employee is a mechanic and that the one shot was fired shortly before 6 a.m. as the mechanic and other employees reported for work Monday morning.
The employee’s identity hasn’t been released, and Trejo says additional information on the incident is not immediately available.
Probably trying to put one of those old carrier vehicles out of it’s misery.