15-year-old charged with gunning down postal worker days after another mail carrier threatened with knife

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} A 15-year-old was arrested and charged with murder on Tuesday for allegedly fatally shooting a Postal Service worker in Chicago in July. The teen, whose name was not released by police, allegedly shot letter carrier Octavia Redmond, 48, and fled in a stolen Dodge Durango, according to the Postal Inspection Service. “When members of our postal family are targeted, postal inspectors will not result until justice is delivered on behalf of the victims, their families, and our postal community.” The statement added that Redmond was “a wife and mother and is remembered as a staple to the postal customers she served.” A GoFundMe page set up by relatives describes Redmond as the “Queen of our family.” The Chicago Police Department and the US Marshals Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested the alleged shooter on Monday in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the department said. The arrest comes after Michigan police on Friday charged a Detroit-area man, Russell Frank Valleu, 61, with allegedly lunging at a Black woman postal worker with a knife in anger over receiving political mail from Kamala Harris.