INDIANAPOLIS — Police say a female mail carrier has died after being shot on the east side of Indianapolis Monday afternoon.
The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is offering up to $50,000 for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for the deadly shooting.
The shooting happened on North Denny Street near South Sherman Drive and East Michigan Street around 4 p.m. Monday. Officers arrived to find the person with gunshot wounds.
"I heard the gun shots," said a woman who lives in the 400 block of North Denny Street. "Probably seven, eight, 10, maybe. It sounded like a lot."
When the woman stepped out of her home Monday afternoon, she saw police tape and a crime scene.
"I saw someone on the stretcher, getting taken away into the ambulance," she said.
That person turned out to be a female postal carrier.
"She's nice, sweet. She talks every time she comes around," the woman said of the mail carrier, who she sees delivering mail every day in the neighborhood. "That's really sad. I hope she's perfectly fine because she was really sweet."
Police say the victim was talking when she left the scene, but was in critical condition at a local hospital and later died.
Police still have not caught the suspect.
Police haven't offered a motive for the shooting, but say they believe it's an isolated incident.
"It's really too early to tell what led up to this," said IMPD Ofc. Mike Hewitt. "I know the detectives right now are separating witnesses and they’re spending time talking with those witnesses to try and get an idea exactly who the suspect is and exactly what led up to this."
The Denny Street resident said the shooting doesn’t surprise her.
"I stay in the house and stay to myself, but there"s always gunshots, probably every two to three days," she said.
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