An on-duty mail carrier was fatally shot Friday on the city’s Far South Side, fire officials and witnesses said.
Octavia Redmond, 48, of Chicago,, was pronounced dead at 12:20 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Redmond was in front of a residence in the 12100 block of South Harvard Avenue when an unknown assailant fired at her about 11:40 a.m., fire and police officials said. The shooter jumped in a vehicle and sped away westbound on 121st Street, police said.
She suffered several gunshot wounds, including to her chest, and was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in critical condition, where she was later pronounced dead, police said.
Redmond, who lived in the South Loop, had been delivering mail along the block for about two years, said one of her regulars, Meda Robinson, 68, who often stopped to chat with Redmond.
“She was a really nice person, she was a beautiful person,” Robinson said. “I can’t understand who would come at her like that.”
Redmond had already passed through with Robinson’s mail when the shooting happened, according to Robinson, who was inside her home when she heard about 10 shots.
James McGee was busy landscaping a yard in the 12100 block of South Harvard when he saw her come by and drop off mail. “We said ‘hello’ to each other,” McGee said. “We talked about the nice weather.”
It was “a lot of shots,” according to another neighbor, Mayo Loving, who was inside when he heard the commotion and a woman screaming.
“It just doesn’t make sense,” said Loving.
U.S. Postal inspectors were on the scene investigating with police, according to spokesperson Michael Martel.
A reward of up to $250,000 has been offered for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the attacker, according to Martel.
No arrests have been made.
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