A 23-year-old Indiana man admitted to killing a postal worker by shooting her after she stopped going to his residence to deliver mail because of his aggressive dog.
After 45-year-old Angela Summers was slain by a single gunshot to the chest, Tony Cushingberry-Mays was charged with second-degree murder, assaulting a federal employee, and discharging a firearm.
Summers, a respected employee at the USPS Linwood Indianapolis Post Office who leaves behind a small son, passed away in a hospital.
The Daily Beast said that according to federal law, murdering a federal employee while they are off duty may result in death or a life term.
Cushingberry-Mays mail service was suspended two weeks prior to the April 2020 incident as a result of many complaints Summers had made about the suspect’s dog’s “various difficulties.”
The final letter informed the suspect that the only way he would be able to retrieve his letters was to pick them up at the post office fourteen days before the shooting on April 27, 2020.
On the day of the shooting, Summers went past the residence of Cushingberry-Mays and made her way to a neighbour’s home before delivering mail by hand to the other residences on the block.
The guy allegedly grew belligerent and abusive against Summers when she passed his house.
Summers allegedly grabbed a self-defence repellent while on a neighbour’s porch and sprayed Cushingberry-Mays as he walked up to her.
A short while later, the suspect produced a revolver and fatally shot Summers in the chest from point blank range.
The COVID-19 stimulus check, according to some stories, was something Cushingberry-Mays had been waiting for.
After starting to shoot, the attacker fled the scene, first stopping at his aunt’s house before proceeding to his mother’s house to hide the weapon.
According to court documents, Cushingberry-Mays claimed to the police that “he didn’t plan to kill her but wanted to scare her.”
The U.S. Postal Inspection Service opened an inquiry right after the incident.
A $50,000 reward had been put forth for any information that resulted in the suspect’s capture.
Concern was expressed by mail carriers all around the county following Summers’ death.
The death of his coworkers shocked Paul Toms, head of National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 39.
According to Oxygen, he referred to his coworkers as “family” and dubbed Summers’ murder the “worst week of his career.”
We refer to one another as brothers and sisters, therefore this tragedy makes no sense, Toms added.