Dear Freak Farm,
Let's start with a table of the incidents:
Date Location Person Responsible Killed Injured
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Mar. 6 1985 Atlanta GA Steven W. Brownlee 2 1
May 31 1985 NYC, NY David Perez - 1
(Also held his former supervisor hostage)
20 Aug 1986 Edmond, OK Patrick Henry Sherrill 15 -
(Note: Sherill murdered 14 and committed suicide)
29 June 1988 Chelsea MA Dominic LuPoli 2 -
(Note: LuPoli committed suicide after his murder)
14 Dec 1988 New Orleans, LA Warren Murphy - 3
(Also held his ex-girlfriend hostage)
25 Mar 1989 Poway, CA Donald Mace 1 -
(Postal worker committed suicide in the office)
9 May 1989 Boston, MA Alfred James Hunter III 1 -
(Murdered his wife before killing spree in the post-office)
10 Aug 1989 Escondido, CA John Taylor 4 1
(The number of the victims include’s the murder’s wife and his own
suicide)
10 Oct 1991 Ridgewood, NJ Joseph M. Harris 4 -
(Kills ex-supervisor and her boyfriend at their home in Wayne NJ,
before the postal office killing spree).
14 Nov 1991 Royal Oak Thomas McIlvane 5 5
(Figure includes McIlvane, who committed suicide after the murders)
3 June 1992 Citrus Heights, CA Roy Barnes 1 -
(Barnes commits suicide in the office)
6 May 1993 Dearborn, MI Larry Jason 2 2
(Figure includes Jason, who committed suicide after the murders).
6 May 1993 Dana Point, CA Mark Hilbun 2 5
(Hilbun also murdered his mother’s dog, who’s naturally not included
in the figures).
21 Mar. 1995 Montclair, N.J Christopher Green 4 1
9 July 1995 City of Industry CA Bruce Clark 1 -
29 Aug 1995 Palatine, IL Dorsey Thomas - 2
15 Aug 1996 Patterson NJ Danny Isku 1 1
19 Dec 1996 Las Vegas, N Charles E. Jennings 1 -
1 Sept 1997 Miami Beach, FL Jesus Antonio Tamayo 3 -
(Tamayo committed suicide alter the murders of his ex-wife and her
boyfriend)
18 Dec 1997 Milwaukee, WI Anthony DeCulit 2 2
(Figures include DeCulit, who committed suicide).
24 Dec 1997 Denver CO David Jackson - -
(Took eight workers hostage at gunpoint)
17 Apr. 1998 Dallas, TX Maceo Yarbough 1 -
4 Sept 1998 Hartford CN Edward Premo - 1
(Premo shot bullet-proofed policemen, and was shot himself).
6 Oct. 1998 Roverside, CA Joseph Neale 5
30 Nov. 1999 San Francisco, CA Leonard Erickson 4 2
(Figures include Erickson’s own suicide; story appears only at
http://www.thedragonscoils.com/muj/archives/1999-11-30.html )
Interestingly enough, despite many incidents of workplace violence, or
school shootings in the last few years, there hasn't been any "postal"
incident in the last several years. That doesn't imply that postal
workers are safe of harm. They fell victim in the last few years to
gang shootings, robbery, and hate crime.
Although you haven't asked for this statistics, these are several
further cases where postal offices became shooting ranges:
In 20 May 1998, in Tuscon, AZ, Gracie M. Verduzco, who suffered of a
mental illness, shot people at her local post office, killing one and
injuring four (see http://www.prophecyclub.com/sept98/15.html)
In August 7th 2002, A San “08/07/02: Shots fired in a busy California
postal office” http://www.mrcranky.com/movies/masterofdisguise/143.html
- a man is shot during an argument between customers in LA.
“A woman was found stabbed to death in a one-room post office in
Fleming, about 15 miles from Hinesville in Liberty County.
The victim, whose name authorities did not release, was a postal
employee at the Fleming Loop Road building, Liberty County Sheriff's
officials said. At least one witness knew her as "Miss Sally." A woman
was found stabbed to death in a one-room post office in Fleming, about
15 miles from Hinesville in Liberty County.
The victim, whose name authorities did not release, was a postal
employee at the Fleming Loop Road building, Liberty County Sheriff's
officials said. At least one witness knew her as "Miss Sally."
(Source: Postal worker found slain in Fleming By Erin Rossiter,
December 2, 2002).
“The next day [June 22, 2003], again in broad daylight, another man
was shot. This time it was U.S. Postal Service carrier Clayton J.
Smith, 45, a local native who had lived in Colliers, W.Va., for the
past four or five years.
Smith, who worked out of the Crafton post office, was shot in the back
around 2 p.m. as he stood outside his clearly marked postal van that
was parked next to a strip of trees on the Ingram side of the
Crafton-Ingram Shopping Center. The U.S. Postal Service has offered a
$100,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction.”
(Source: Homicide pace in Allegheny County is swift, but no pattern
found "13 died in June to bring county's '03 total to 54"
Sunday, July 06, 2003 By Michael A. Fuoco, Post-Gazette Staff Writer ,
http://www.post-gazette.com/localnews/20030706murdersreg3p3.asp).
The reasons for "going postal" are variant. The stress in this kind of
job and the conditions are the typical explanations. Sometimes, it
affects workers themselves without hariming others:
“A Postal Service project engineer, Judith Coffin, 46, had 12 years
with the postal service. Coffin also was diabetic. After receiving a
promotion, in 1993, overseeing workers who install and maintain
mail-processing machines in the city's largest post office things went
downhill. From the beginning of her new position she was relentlessly
sexually harassed, and verbally abused, by the male subordinates and
male supervisors under her. Coffin complained to postal officials who
did nothing to alleviate the situation. On August 17, 1995 after
almost two years of the harassment and postal officials not dealing
with the problem, Judith Coffin met with a superior to discuss her job
status. That same day Coffin left a suicide note blaming the Postal
Service for her decision to end her life. She then took an overdose of
insulin and died six days later.“ (Source: “In Memory of Postal
Workers Who Succumbed to Suicide and/or Homicide in the Workplace”
http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/5782/inmemory.htm)
“A Korean-American protesting against the North Korean government
emptied a seven-shot pistol in front of U.N. headquarters Thursday,
hitting several offices but injuring no one, authorities said.”
(Postal worker fires on U.N. with handgun DAFNA LINZER Associated
Press 4 Oct 2002 http://www.nctimes.net/news/2002/20021004/60758.html
)
You could read more about it in the following list.
Further Reading
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The Washington Post's articles on violence at the workplace -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/specials/aroundthenation/workplaceshootings/
“In Memory of Postal Workers Who Succumbed to Suicide and/or Homicide
in the Workplace” http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/5782/inmemory.htm
School, Workplace Violence 1980- 2001
http://www.erplan.com/workplace.htm
Stress Doc – Going Postal http://www.stressdoc.com/going_postal_i1.htm
; http://www.stressdoc.com/going_postal_ii1.htm ;
http://www.stressdoc.com/reducing_risk.htm ;
http://www.stressdoc.com/Postal3b.htm ;
http://www.stressdoc.com/postal3c1.htm
Smith, M. 1993. "Postal Killing: Postwar Stress?" The Orange Country
RegisterMay 19:b1.
My search strategy was to search databases for key words such as
"postal worker" "postal employee" "going postal" with other
combinations such as "homicide", "murder" "shooting".
I hope that answered your question. Please contact me if you need any
further clarification on my answer. I'd be pleased to clarify my
answer before you rate it. |
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