A 63-year-old postal worker who was robbed at gunpoint by a masked assailant in Dublin, California this week is recovering from the shocking daytime attack, CCTV footage shows. was.
Video shows the 33-year veteran of the U.S. Postal Service putting mail into a mailbox in a residential area east of San Francisco around 4:30 p.m., when a black A fully clothed masked man ran up from behind and grabbed her. Her and a second masked figure run up to her and surround her, pointing her gun at her head.
“Someone came up behind me and said ‘boom’ and punched me and put a gun to my head,” said the postal worker, who requested anonymity. Fox 2. “He said, ‘Give me the keys. You don’t want to die, do you?’ I said, ‘No, no, no.’ So I went into the house to get my keys and he said, “Where’s your phone?” You have two minutes left.” ”
A postal worker in California is surrounded by two assailants. (Fox 2)
She said she thought she was “going to die.”
She said she was worried they would shoot her, but kept telling herself to stay calm.
After the robbers fled on foot with a cell phone, several mailboxes and the keys to the truck, the woman went to a neighbor’s house and called 911.
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Police are continuing to search for the robbers in a joint investigation with U.S. Postal Inspectors. (Fox 2)
Police are still searching for the suspect, and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service is offering a $150,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.
Surveillance video shows a blue Infiniti driving toward the scene and then leaving the scene.
“I’m so anxious I can’t sleep. My heart is racing,” she told the station, adding that she was not injured in the attack but was seeing a therapist due to the trauma.
The woman is a 33-year veteran of the postal service. (Fox 2)
But she says she hopes to be able to return to work.
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“I love my job,” she professed. “I love my customers. I love serving them.”
The Dublin attack is the latest in a series of crimes against postal workers across the country.
