{"id":37084,"date":"2025-01-04T10:54:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T15:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=37084"},"modified":"2025-01-04T17:33:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T22:33:15","slug":"video-community-mourns-loss-of-usps-letter-carrier-ray-hodge-stabbed-in-deli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2025\/01\/04\/video-community-mourns-loss-of-usps-letter-carrier-ray-hodge-stabbed-in-deli\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Community mourns loss of USPS letter carrier Ray Hodge stabbed in deli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/video\/embed\/?pid=15749099\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Ray-Hodge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37085\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Ray-Hodge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Ray-Hodge.jpg 560w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Ray-Hodge-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Ray-Hodge-80x55.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB \">HARLEM, Manhattan (WABC) &#8212; 1\/3\/25 &#8211; <\/span>A community is mourning the loss of a 36-year-old postal worker who was stabbed and killed during a dispute in a Harlem deli on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The warmth from dozens of candles could be felt on a frigid Friday morning as friends and neighbors stopped by the Mott Haven Houses to remember the life of Ray Hodge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;I watched him grow up and to see him, you know, go from one stage of life to the next, to better himself, was anything you could ask from a kid,&#8221; neighbor Andrea M. said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">One friend told Eyewitness News that he and Hodge grew up together in the Bronx.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;We all loved him in the community. It&#8217;s a tragic loss&#8230;we&#8217;re going to celebrate him and keep his spirit alive,&#8221; the friend said. Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/postal-worker-killed-harlem-community-mourns-loss-usps-employee-ray-hodge-stabbed-deli\/15748138\/\">ABC 7<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/video\/embed\/?pid=15747789\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Jaia-Cruz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37086\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Jaia-Cruz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Jaia-Cruz.jpg 495w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Jaia-Cruz-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Jaia-Cruz-123x70.jpg 123w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline headline--single-fallback\">NY Post: <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/01\/04\/us-news\/creepy-video-shows-full-face-of-transgender-woman-accused-of-killing-nyc-postal-worker\/\">Knife-wielding transgender woman accused of killing NYC postal worker smiles, rolls eyes in creepy video<\/a><\/h1>\n<hr \/>\n<h1 class=\"title\">Transgender woman stabs New York letter carrier to death over sandwich<\/h1>\n<p>A transgender woman with a history of violence is accused of fatally stabbing a postal worker in New York City on Thursday after being cut in line for lunch.<\/p>\n<p>Police say Jaia Cruz had been arrested at least five times before she allegedly gutted Ray Hodges, 36, with a knife after he cut her in line at a Harlem deli, the New York Post\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/01\/03\/us-news\/woman-accused-of-stabbing-postal-worker-over-spot-in-nyc-deli-line-has-long-history-of-knife-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz, 24, threatened to slash someone with a box cutter in July 2020 and then resisted when officers came to arrest her, the Post reported. Two weeks later, Cruz and an accomplice were arrested for allegedly using knives to steal a man\u2019s phone and wallet.<\/p>\n<p>Deli workers told ABC\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/postal-worker-stabbed-killed-working-harlem\/15742448\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">News 7<\/a>\u00a0the dispute arose over a sandwich and who had ordered first. One worker said he tried to intervene but was unable to stop the violence.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz has been charged with second-degree murder, media\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/nypd-woman-charged-in-murder-of-postal-worker-after-dispute-over-the-line-at-a-deli\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARLEM, Manhattan (WABC) &#8212; 1\/3\/25 &#8211; A community is mourning the loss of a 36-year-old postal worker who was stabbed and killed during a dispute in a Harlem deli on Thursday. The warmth from dozens of candles could be felt on a frigid Friday morning as friends and neighbors stopped by the Mott Haven Houses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,110,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-under-siege","category-postal-crime","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37084","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=37084"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37094,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37084\/revisions\/37094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}