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| Ronreddog | posted on 04-11-2001 @ 1:43 PM |    | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00  | Police kill man who stabbed 3 04/11/01 BY GEORGE BERKIN AND MICHAEL A. WATTKIS STAR-LEDGER STAFF A U.S. Postal Service worker who quit his job last month amid a dispute with another employee returned to his Kearny workplace with a handgun and two knives last night, slashing three people before police shot him dead, authorities said. None of those targeted in the 6:30 p.m. attack was seriously injured, but workers at the sprawling Harrison Avenue facility were traumatized as the man menaced them and died in a barrage of police gunfire. "The whole thing lasted 15 minutes. There was a lot of yelling, people panicking, breaking down crying," said Lucious Leverson, a postal worker inside the building when the attacker struck. Authorities said the man, whom they identified only as a 26-year-old Newark resident, did not appear to have fired his handgun, a .380-caliber pistol carrying eight bullets, but he refused to drop it and advanced on three Kearny officers who had cornered him in a locker room, authorities said. "He approached the officers and he was instructed to drop his weapon a number of times," First Assistant Hudson County Prosecutor Terrence Hull said. "When he didn't, all three officers discharged their weapons. The suspect was pronounced dead at the scene." Hull did not say how many shots the officers fired. Leverson said he heard 15 to 16. Authorities said the man had resigned March 5. A temporary worker who had served at least three stints with the Postal Service since 1998, he began his latest assignment in January, said Anthony Esposito, a spokesman for the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. "He had a personal dispute with another employee in the building," Esposito said. The nature of the dispute was not immediately clear. The employee with whom he was feuding was not in the building, a priority mail processing center, when he walked in last night. The incident took place at the start of a shift change, when many of the 250 employees who work at the center were coming and going, Hull said. The man entered the lobby through the front door but was unable to get past a security checkpoint, which requires a keypass, Hull said. A worker at the security desk immediately saw the gun, which appeared to be taped to the man's hand, the prosecutor said. "He didn't ask for anyone," the prosecutor said. "At the front door, the person knew him and said, 'Don't do this,' and called 911." Wielding his knife, the man entered an adjoining locker room, where he attacked three workers, one man and two women. The postal building, at 1200 Harrison Ave., is in an industrial area along Kearny's main thoroughfare. The one-story building is bounded by a chain-link fence. The center was owned and operated by Emery Worldwide Airlines, a shipping firm, until Jan. 4, when it was turned over to the Postal Service. More than 100 Emery employees lost their jobs after the acquisition, while many others were absorbed. The merger and layoffs created tension between workers and supervisors, Leverson said. The facility is less than a mile from the Dominick V. Daniels Facility, a massive bulk mail sorting and distribution center in the Meadowlands. The facility, named for a former congressman from Hudson County, handles much of the mail for the New York-New Jersey area. The last outburst of violence at a postal facility in New Jersey was in 1995, when a former postal worker walked into a substation in Montclair and killed two employees and two customers. Christopher Green, 29 at the time, later confessed to the killings, saying his motive was robbery to pay off a "mountain of debt." Anyone else feel like "going postal" these days? Some sick S going on out there! E-Mail Me  | ||||
| weinie | posted on 04-11-2001 @ 1:53 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Oct. 00 | I worked one summer for the P.O, in high school delivering the mail. Best f-in job ever. On my own all day... smokin' weed, drinkin' beers at lunch, reading victoria secret catalogs while crossing heavily trafficked intersections.... Cant tell you how many times i delivered certified or registered letters requiring signatures to hot housewives in perty little negliges early in the morning. Dosnt get any better than that. Dont know why these guys always go berserk.. then again, I didnt have to wear the uniform or those f-ed up shorts.  | ||||
| Rog2K | posted on 04-11-2001 @ 1:53 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | WHAT!?!? He couldn't find a gun!?!?! What kind of postal worker is he!?!?  Remember, amateurs built the Ark, professionals built the Titanic. | ||||
| o&aswallow | posted on 04-11-2001 @ 1:54 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | Uptight postal workers should get a job as a landscaper. As this photo demonstrates, the stress factor is very low for this lucky employee.  o&aswallow Recognized His Destiny Early. Too Many Hotties, Not Enough Horny Goat Weed It at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do suck seed. - Curly Howard. | ||||
| bluetarp | posted on 04-11-2001 @ 2:10 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | One of the reasons you hear about so many postal workers, is that the post office is one of the biggest employers in the country. Also has a large majority of it's employees in non-management positions. In my opinion( yes I know most opinions stink) the whole entitlement fed employee thing kicks in and helps things too. People within the civil service tend to develop a "you-owe-me" attitude about things. Some people can't handle it, get fired, and then... Any former or current employees of USPS, agree, or disagree?  Some people think I'm a psycho, everybody else knows it! | ||||
| The Brain | posted on 04-11-2001 @ 2:10 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Feb. 01 | quote: That's the scariest part: he went thru with his attack even though his intended target wasn't even there...  "ARE YOU PONDERING WHAT I'M PONDERING?" | ||||
| Ronreddog | posted on 04-11-2001 @ 2:14 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | o&aswallow, that is fucking awesome! Can I be that guy? That is a job I could do 24/7! ;) How'd you like to mow my lawn, huh? E-Mail Me | ||||
| CacaSmooches | posted on 04-11-2001 @ 5:28 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Dec. 00 | What else is new? Maybe he was upset his lobster didn't stick to his magnet... Thank God, it didn't tear anyone's ear off, or bite their eyes... At least let's be thank full for that... "Kyle, I'm just a stupid piece of crap..." Just some nuggets (with corn) of wisdom from the bottom of the Jersey City Sewer Department- as for my status, I just keep on smiling.  | ||||
| EvilEd | posted on 04-12-2001 @ 5:46 AM | | |||
| Hanger-On Registered: Apr. 01 | Why is it that postal workers move fast only when they're shooting postal office into pile of crap with AK-47? | ||||
| King f-tard | posted on 04-12-2001 @ 9:13 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Feb. 01 | Yeah, they couldnt be any faster with out mail, but for killing sprees, they jump. | ||||
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