A woman was shot outside a U.S. Postal Service facility in Washington, D.C., on Monday, and a postal worker was taken into custody.
said a U.S. Postal Service worker is in custody after allegedly shooting a woman outside a mailing center Monday morning. responded to the 900 block of Brentwood Road, NE for the report of a shooting, a police spokesperson told Fox News Digital.
The suspect is in custody at this time and is a postal worker, the spokesperson added, without adding more details. The suspect, who is female, left the scene but then returned, Lenz reportedly said, adding that the Postal Inspection Service is working with federal and local law enforcement on the case. The victim, also female, was struck twice by gunfire and remains hospitalized, though her condition was not immediately available.
The postal worker who opened fire Monday was not a security guard, though other postal service security guards were at the gate area of the mailing distribution center whenThe victim's white vehicle was still at the scene of a shooting outside a post office in Washington, D.C.
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