3 USPS workers, including suspect, dead after shooting at Memphis facility

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Source: ABC News

Two U.S. Postal Service employees are dead after a shooting at a Memphis postal facility, authorities said.

The suspected shooter, who was also a USPS employee, died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, FBI Memphis spokesperson Lisa-Anne Culp said during a press briefing Tuesday.

The shooting occurred Tuesday afternoon at the East Lamar Carrier Annex, a location that does not have retail customers. Around 2:50 p.m. local time, the Memphis Police Department said it had secured the scene and there was no active threat.

USPS is working with the FBI, Memphis Police Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on the investigation, Postal Inspector Susan Link told reporters.'

The USPS and FBI spokespeople did not share any additional information on the shooting, including the identifies of the victims or suspect.


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[MzRappy]

1. Guns

I hate guns. My ex-husband tried to kill himself a bunch of times with a gun. It’s like the Wild West nw.. thanks to Repubs.

[Skittles]

2. you are trying way too hard

[iluvtennis]

3. agree on my hatred of guns.

Welcome to DU @MzRappy

[Hoyt]

5. Appreciate your comment, from someone who gets the problems with gunz.

[PSPS]

11. My oldest brother was really into guns.

Yes, I said "was." He got depressed one night and killed himself with one.

[LiberatedUSA]

14. How does that happen?

The bunch of times? A whole bunch of misfires or was aiming at his own head a challenge?

[niyad]

4. My dear friend Betty, who introduced me to DU, was a postal employee at a time

when there were many instances of violence in the PO's. I prayed for their safety daily. She told me this PO joke: "How do you know when the PO is hiring? The flags are at half staff."

[Hoyt]

6. First, feel awful for those killed. Sorry I laughed at the PO joke, but it's apt.

[joetheman]

13. Not "stress" but stress from racism and discrimination. Search it out. The history is all there.

I don't have the stats at hand but a lot or workplace violence was and continues to be because of discrimination of some kind.

[Frasier Balzov]

8. What are guns and ammunition used for?

Settling grievances, expressing displeasure and solving personal problems.

It is a bad bargain we have made with the armed and the would-be.

[C Moon]

10. When the murderer takes their own life, they should say "Two killed, plus one nobody dead."

[Sabuca]

12. We need more gun regulation

Our massacres will continue.