NEW YORK (1010 WINS) – A U.S. postal worker was robbed at gunpoint in Brooklyn on Tuesday afternoon, less than a week after a postman was stabbed to death in Harlem.
The 30-year-old woman was delivering packages for the U.S. Postal Service at Greene Avenue and Malcolm X Boulevard in Bedford-Stuyvesant around 2:15 p.m. when she was robbed.
Two men—dressed in black and wearing masks—pulled a firearm on her and stole all of her packages at gunpoint, police said.
The pair was last seen fleeing westbound on Greene Avenue with the stolen mail.
No arrests had been reported as of Wednesday.
The robbery came days after a U.S. Postal Service letter carrier was stabbed to death while on the job in Harlem.
Ray Hodges, 36, of the Bronx, had stopped to get a sandwich at a deli on Lenox Avenue Thursday afternoon, when Jaia Cruz, 24, got into a fight with him about who was next in line, police said.
Durning the spat, she stabbed him more than a half-dozen times, according to police. He was pronounced dead at an area hospital.