{"id":16064,"date":"2016-08-26T09:21:02","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T14:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=16064"},"modified":"2016-08-26T09:21:02","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T14:21:02","slug":"video-postal-workers-mourn-loss-of-pregnant-co-worker-gunned-down-on-detroits-west-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2016\/08\/26\/video-postal-workers-mourn-loss-of-pregnant-co-worker-gunned-down-on-detroits-west-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Postal workers mourn loss of pregnant co-worker gunned down on Detroit&#8217;s west side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/cdnapi.kaltura.com\/p\/2031091\/sp\/203109100\/embedIframeJs\/uiconf_id\/36217991\/partner_id\/2031091?iframeembed=true&amp;playerId=media-preview_0_0_odnyfdld&amp;entry_id=0_odnyfdld&amp;flashvars[streamerType]=auto\" width=\"640\" height=\"395\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-size: 17px; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><strong>DETROIT<\/strong><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>&#8211; Workers at the post office in Detroit are mourning the loss of their pregnant co-worker Thursday morning who was shot and killed on Detroit&#8217;s west side.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-size: 17px; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Bionka Lyons, 21, of Detroit, was killed Wednesday at about 11 p.m. outside her parent\u2019s home on Crocuslawn Street. Her unborn child did not survive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-size: 17px; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">\u201cIt\u2019s all everyone has been talking about today because she was just so young,\u201d USPS employee Sherrie Coleman said. \u201cI\u2019m a mother and it makes me think of my own and I just can\u2019t imagine what the family is going through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-size: 17px; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Lyons was shot five times.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-size: 17px; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Her parents heard the shots and found her in the street near her vehicle. She was rushed to the hospital. The baby died soon after they arrived at the emergency room. Lyons died at about 2 a.m. She was seven months pregnant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-size: 17px; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\">Lyons was expecting to give birth to a boy \u2013 her first child. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clickondetroit.com\/news\/postal-workers-mourn-loss-of-pregnant-co-worker-gunned-down-on-detroits-west-side\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; font-size: 17px; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16065\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Bionka-Lyons.jpg\" alt=\"Bionka Lyons\" width=\"470\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Bionka-Lyons.jpg 470w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Bionka-Lyons-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT\u00a0&#8211; Workers at the post office in Detroit are mourning the loss of their pregnant co-worker Thursday morning who was shot and killed on Detroit&#8217;s west side. Bionka Lyons, 21, of Detroit, was killed Wednesday at about 11 p.m. outside her parent\u2019s home on Crocuslawn Street. Her unborn child did not survive. \u201cIt\u2019s all everyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16066,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16064\/revisions\/16066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}