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US: Two dead in shooting at US post office
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WASHINGTON, 14 October 2021, (TON): Authorities said “two US Postal Service employees were shot dead Tuesday in a gun attack at a Tennessee post office.”
The suspected shooter opened fire at the East Lamar Carrier Annex in Memphis and then died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
US Postal Inspector Susan Link told reporters that both victims, as well as the shooter, were postal service employees.”
She said that there is no ongoing threat.
“The FBI is working the scene and can confirm that the shooter is one of the three employees deceased by an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound,” said Lisa-Anne Culp, a spokeswoman for the FBI’s Memphis field office, at the same press conference.
She said an investigation has been launched.
Both Link and Culp declined to give further details about the shooting.
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