More than 3,000 new postal workers have been hired in the D.C. area recently, as the post office works to reduce the number of late mail deliveries — two years after a mail carrier was murdered working after dark. Tyson Barnette was delivering mail at about 7:30 p.m. in November 2013 when someone shot him […]
The family of a mailman slain while on his route in Landover, Md., last year is expected to join postal carriers for a candlelight vigil in his memory this weekend. They’re planning to gather Sunday at Reed Street and Jutewood Avenue in Landover, where 26-year-old Tyson Jerome Barnette was fatally shot while delivering mail at […]
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USPIS: $100,000 reward in 2013 murder of Maryland letter carrier CHEVERLY, Md. (WUSA9) — Solving the 2013 murder of the Md. letter carrier, Tyson Jerome Barnette is still a top priority, according to a spokesperson for the Postal Inspection Service.
WASHINGTON (WJZ) — Rallying for safety. Hundreds of Maryland mail carriers descended on the Capitol, pushing for federal safer working conditions after a Maryland postal worker was gunned down while delivering mail after dark. Following Tyson Barnette’s murder on the clock, fellow employees want changes to work schedules to prevent a repeat of this tragedy. […]
Many in Rock Hill’s Barnette family will travel to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C. this weekend, but the trip is not for sightseeing. The family will take part in a march and rally on Monday, the Marthin Luther King Jr. holiday, because Tyson Barnette, 26, was gunned down outside the nation’s […]
Communities and Postal Workers United Call for a National Day To Report Dark Delivery Hazards on Sat. Dec. 21, 2013 As a follow-up to our Dec. 2nd National Day of Mourning for Tyson Jerome Barnette, letter carrier killed while delivering in the dark – Communities and Postal Workers United calls on all letter carriers who […]
The funeral of a postal worker shot and killed. Tyson Barnette moved to Maryland after graduating from Northwestern High School in his hometown of Rock Hill.
Postal workers and their allies will observe a national day of mourning within the US Postal Service this Monday. Employees will wear black armbands, observe a moment of silence, and lower flags to half staff on the day after his funeral, to call attention to the killing of Tyson Jerome Barnette, a 26 year old […]
LANDOVER, Md. (WJZ) — Prince George’s County Police retrace the route of a murdered postal worker. Someone shot and killed Tyson Barnette while he delivered mail in a Landover neighborhood. Police are going over every step Barnette took on his postal route, hoping it will lead them to the person who pulled the trigger. Prince […]