The postal worker who was killed in a Texas shooting over the weekend was on the phone with her twin sister during her final moments.
USPS identified Mary Granados, 29, as the employee who lost her life when the gunman hijacked her mail truck toward the end of her shift in Odessa on Saturday. Her sister Rosie heard her scream over the phone as the shooter approached.
“It was very painful,” she told CNN on Sunday. “I just wanted to help her and I couldn’t. I thought she had got bite by a dog or something. I tried calling her name, and she wouldn’t answer.”
She added that their family, who moved to the area when the twins were 14 years old, is struggling to process the tragedy.
“We are all broken. We are all suffering about this,” she said. “She was a very beautiful person. She was very friendly and was always smiling.”
According to the Postal Service, Granados was alone in the vehicle when she was shot. USPS’s law enforcement arm is working closely with other agencies investigating the shooting.
“The Postal Service is shocked and saddened by the events that occurred yesterday in the Midland-Odessa area. We are especially grieving the loss of our postal family member and we continue to keep her family in our thoughts,” the Postmaster General and CEO said in a statement on Sunday.
Seven people were killed and at least 19 others injured when a gunman went on a shooting rampage in and around the cities of Odessa and Midland, Texas. At one point, the shooter hijacked Granados’ mail truck before driving to a movie theater parking lot where he was killed in a shootout with police.
After local police initially refused to release the gunman’s name, he was later identified as 36-year-old Seth Ator. A GoFundMe to help the Granados family with funeral expenses has been set up.
