William Kaiser in the Public Information Office, simply replied in an email: “All info will come from the USPS.”
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Pray every time you want to fall apart.”Īsked about some official update from Memphis Police Department, Lt. I just tried saying things to help her adjust to the situation. There is nothing you can say to make everything normal. “She was safe but an emotional and broken human being. Mitchell continued engaging her friend by text. “I was nervous, but found Sheriff Floyd Bonner’s number, but he was at a funeral…911 assured me that police were on the scene and en route.” Someone is shooting, and two people are dead,’ Mitchell shared in a Facebook post Tuesday. “…Around 2 p.m., I got a text from a good friend: ‘Please help me. The double murder-suicide unfolded in real time on the phone of former Memphis City Councilwoman TaJuan Stout Mitchell.
That’s when I knew something bad was happening over there.” “When I looked down Park Avenue, there were so many unmarked police cars turning onto Pendleton. “We are used to hearing sirens, but I came outside because there were so many,” said Hazell Glover Jones. Terror-filled, screaming employees fled the facility onto the parking lot while others hid inside after gunshots suddenly rang out about 2 p.m. in historic Orange Mound came out to watch the procession of police cars as news spread that there was an “active shooter” situation. Residents near the East Lamar Carrier Annex at 2801 Park Ave. The tragedy of the day before unfolded like an all-too-real television drama. Red, white and blue mail trucks were seen streaming out of the driveway. On Wednesday, postal workers returned to their jobs at the sorting facility. Postal Service didn’t immediately name those involved or disclose a motive for the shooting. Green said she did not know the motive, but “obviously, something was going on, in the carrier’s mind.”
Shri Green, area vice president for the National Association of Postal Supervisors, told The Associated Press that a letter carrier shot a manager and a supervisor. Wilson and Dortch, a manager and a supervisor respectively, were gunned down before the shooter, a fellow employee, turned the gun on himself. 12 for a typical day at work at the East Lamar Carrier Annex near the corner of Park Ave. Postal Service employees, James Wilson and Demetria Dortch, came in Tuesday, Oct.
Postal Service workers died of gunshot wounds at a carrier annex in Orange Mound, the weight of the tragedy still was being processed in multiple quarters by Memphis-area residents weary of gun violence. Whitlow/GSW Enterprises)Ī day after three U.S. The postal facility in Orange Mound became a crime scene Tuesday afternoon.