The day after this shooting, another mail carrier was struck while on route in Chicago, this time with a paintball gun. Mail carriers in the city of Chicago are threatening to stop delivering in some neighborhoods after a 24-year-old postal worker was shot on her route earlier this month. The unidentified woman was shot four […]
Grand jury indicts Dayton man with shooting mail carrier 1/14/2020 DAYTON – A Dayton man has been charged federally after allegedly shooting a United States Postal Service mail carrier. A federal grand jury has charged Christopher O. Gibson, 47, with assaulting and injuring a United States employee with a deadly weapon and using a firearm […]
WILLIAMSBURG COUNTY, S.C. (WCBD) – A second arrest has been made in the murder of a postal worker in Williamsburg County. 64-year-old Irene Pressley was killed while on her delivery route in late September. The community described her as beloved and said they were left with a void after her passing. On September 28th, investigators […]
9/1/2017 CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Local mail carriers are calling union leaders concerned after one of their own was shot on the job in west Charlotte Thursday. National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 545 President Sylvin Stevens has been comforting letters carriers non-stop since the shooting. “I’m wearing this ribbon in solidarity and support to Mr. […]
Charges have now been dismissed against two men accused of shooting a postal carrier.. who investigators say had been delivering drugs on his route. Marcus Bennett and his brother, Eric Bennett, were both facing federal charges of Assaulting, Resisting or Impeding Certain Officers or Employees, and Discharging a Firearm During the Commission of a Violent […]