{"id":35868,"date":"2024-07-28T10:29:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T15:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=35868"},"modified":"2024-07-28T10:36:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T15:36:12","slug":"video-chicago-il-homicide-of-usps-letter-carrier-octavia-redmond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2024\/07\/28\/video-chicago-il-homicide-of-usps-letter-carrier-octavia-redmond\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Chicago, IL: HOMICIDE OF USPS LETTER CARRIER OCTAVIA REDMOND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Octavia-Redmond.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35797\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Octavia-Redmond.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Octavia-Redmond.jpg 545w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Octavia-Redmond-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Octavia-Redmond-123x70.jpg 123w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Octavia-Redmond-254x141.jpg 254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ABC News: A postal worker was fatally shot in front of a residence in Chicago on Friday, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The National Association of Letter Carriers identified the postal worker as 48-year-old Octavia Redmond. She had been a letter carrier for five years, the group said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WGf_-Oc9N4w?si=xFJZY_URg0_6C9Uh\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nVideo: WGN News<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;NALC (National Association of Letter Carriers) is heartbroken by the murder of Octavia Redmond, our sister from Chicago, IL Branch 11,&#8221; read a statement from the NALC released on Friday. &#8220;Today, Sister Redmond was shot multiple times on her route and was taken to the hospital, where she died. The perpetrator is still at large.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Redmond was in front of a residence when &#8220;an unknown male offender approached&#8221; her and fired shots before fleeing in vehicle, Chicago Police Department Office of Communications said in a statement.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is offering a reward of up to $250,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspect(s) who shot and killed a United States Postal Service (USPS) letter carrier. 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Video: WGN News &#8220;NALC (National Association of Letter Carriers) is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-postal-crime","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35868","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=35868"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35873,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35868\/revisions\/35873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}