{"id":39740,"date":"2026-07-02T11:06:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=39740"},"modified":"2026-07-02T11:06:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:06:37","slug":"suspect-arrested-in-homicide-of-usps-employee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2026\/07\/02\/suspect-arrested-in-homicide-of-usps-employee\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect arrested in homicide of USPS employee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wilkes County, NC \u2013 On June 26, 2026, at approximately 4:16 p.m. the Wilkes County Sheriff\u2019s Office responded to a request for law enforcement assistance at 304 Monteith Acres, Hays, North Carolina. Upon arrival, deputies discovered United States Postal Service (USPS) Rural Letter Carrier, Brandi Reynolds, deceased at the scene. Following an investigation, William Craig Durham was arrested in relation to this incident.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains active and is being conducted jointly by the United States Postal Inspection Service, the Wilkes County Sheriff\u2019s Office, and the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/USPIS495.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-30449 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/USPIS495-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/USPIS495-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/USPIS495-30x30.jpg 30w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilkes County, NC \u2013 On June 26, 2026, at approximately 4:16 p.m. the Wilkes County Sheriff\u2019s Office responded to a request for law enforcement assistance at 304 Monteith Acres, Hays, North Carolina. Upon arrival, deputies discovered United States Postal Service (USPS) Rural Letter Carrier, Brandi Reynolds, deceased at the scene. Following an investigation, William Craig [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39740","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\/39740","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=39740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39741,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39740\/revisions\/39741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}