Calls for postal worker protection grow after Chicago carrier murdered

(The Center Square) – Illinois state Rep. La Shawn Ford, D-Chicago, is pledging to do all he can to slow an ongoing trend that has seen at least 140 Chicago postal workers attacked while on the job over the last year.

In the latest incident, longtime city letter carrier Octavia Redmond was gunned down July 19 in the West Pullman neighborhood by a man wearing a ski mask as she went door to door. Authorities said the assailant fired at least eight shots at Redmond before fleeing in a waiting vehicle.