Authorities in Iowa arrested a 15-year-old boy accused of fatally shooting a U.S. Postal Service carrier in July within the West Pullman neighborhood.
The boy allegedly shot Octavia Redmond, 48, a number of occasions at shut vary close to South Harvard Avenue and West 122nd Road about 11:40 a.m. on July 19 whereas Redmond was delivering mail, in keeping with Chicago police and the regulation enforcement arm of the Postal Service.
“Redmond was a spouse and mom and is remembered as a staple to the postal clients she served,” mentioned a Postal Service information launch on Tuesday.
A joint investigation by the Postal Service and the Chicago Police Division recognized the boy, who was not named, as a suspect within the murder.
Chicago police and a U.S. Marshals Service fugitive process drive arrested the boy in Cedar Rapids on Monday. He was extradited to Chicago and subsequently charged as a juvenile with felony first-degree homicide, authorities mentioned.
The Postal Service mentioned the boy exited a stolen white Dodge Durango earlier than he approached Redmond and shot her. The boy fled within the SUV, which was discovered by regulation enforcement the day after the capturing.
Redmond was rushed to Advocate Christ Medical Middle in Oak Garden the place she was pronounced useless, police mentioned.
On the day of the capturing, those that lived close to the scene described Redmond as a good-natured and pleasant mail service.
“She was a very nice woman,” mentioned resident Todd Lindberg, 56. “(She) did her job. She would exit of her approach. If a letter got here in after she handed your home she’d come again.”
Chicago-area mail carriers have voiced concerns for their safety as armed robberies of carriers for packages and arrow keys have skyrocketed in recent times.
“There is no such thing as a place for this kind of mindless violence,” Inspector in Cost of the Chicago division of the Postal Service regulation enforcement arm, Ruth Mendonça, mentioned within the Postal Service information launch. “When members of our postal household are focused, postal inspectors won’t relaxation till justice is delivered on behalf of the victims, their households, and our postal neighborhood.”
The boy was ordered held in custody throughout a listening to Tuesday earlier than a Prepare dinner County juvenile courtroom choose. His subsequent scheduled courtroom date is Nov. 1.
