ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) – St. Paul police say a postal employee shot a coworker at a post office on Sunday.

Police responded shortly before 3:30 p.m. to the report of a shooting at the post office branch along West 7th Street near the I-35E exit.

Inside the post office, officers found a man who had been shot multiple times.

The victim was rushed to the hospital with what police are saying are life-threatening injuries.

Police say the suspect left the scene but was arrested a little over an hour later at West 7th Street and Madison Street, about a mile southwest of the crime scene.

Officers say the suspect knew the victim and was also a postal employee.

The circumstances leading up to the shooting are still under investigation. FOX9