HARLEM, Manhattan (WABC) — An USPS employee was stabbed and killed inside a deli whereas on the job in Harlem on Thursday afternoon.
Officers responded to the deli at 168 Lenox Avenue after 2:30 p.m. and located the injured 36-year-old sufferer.
He was stabbed or slashed a number of instances contained in the deli, together with within the torso, arms, again and neck.
He was taken to NYC Well being + Hospitals/Harlem the place he was pronounced lifeless.
“I do know the blokes that ship mail,” stated resident Uzo Guchiaschi. “And identical to this he is gone. It is very scary. It is very, very scary.”
Police say the assault seems to have stemmed from a dispute between two prospects that turned bodily.
A 24-year-old particular person of curiosity is in custody and a weapon has been recovered.
Eyewitness Information spoke to a buddy of the particular person of curiosity, and whereas she didn’t know what, or why this occurred, she stated it is not in her buddy’s character to have attacked somebody with no purpose. She stated her buddy would not have damage somebody except provoked.
“She’s a pleasant younger girl. She shouldn’t be the sort that simply come out on the street an attacking individuals,” the buddy stated. “That is only a dangerous neighborhood. What occurred — I don’t know as a result of I used to be not round but. I do not know, however I do know, if she stated it was in self protection, it was in self protection.”
In the meantime, a bunch of distraught postal staff arrived on the scene, solemn and visibly shaken, battling the right way to course of what occurred to their colleague.
“All I will say is he was a pleasant younger man. That is it,” stated postal employee Kathy Singleton.
They are saying he went into the deli to purchase a sandwich when the confrontation unfolded.
Deli staff had an analogous account, telling Eyewitness Information that the dispute was over a sandwich and who positioned their order first.
The sufferer’s postal cart was nonetheless sitting on the sidewalk outdoors Thursday evening.
The USA Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) launched a press release confirming that the postal employee was assigned to Manhattan, and was the sufferer of a murder.
“USPIS takes issues involving the protection and wellbeing of postal service staff as a prime precedence. We’re working diligently with the New York Metropolis Police Division on this investigation,” the assertion stated.
It is unclear what weapon the postal employee was stabbed and slashed with.
The investigation is ongoing.
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