Postal worker shot to death while delivering mail in Milwaukee
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"Just how dangerous is it to be a postal worker when compared to other jobs? At the U.S. Department of Labor, Guy Toscano sifted through some statistics this week and reported this: Postal work is one of the safest occupations in the job pool. Postal workers are not even a blip on the Department of Labor’s scale of 1993 occupational fatalities, no matter how the statistics are compiled--by job-related accident or homicide."
Black on Black murders are going on in ghettos all over America. It's going on in Baltimore, Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Atlanta, even smaller cities like Jackson, Birmingham, and Baton Rouge. It's happening in Jacksonville, Miami, Tulsa, and Fort Worth. Anywhere ghettos exists, Black murder rates are high. This has been a sad fact of life going back to the 1940s and 1950s.
I am a current lifetime resident of "Milwaukee" - born, raised, worked, retired here - for the past 60 years have lived in an suburb adjoining the city, worked most of my life in downtown Milwaukee - a five minute drive from my house. My 'suburban' neighborhood is fine, w/skyrocketing property values. Still consider myself a Milwaukeean.
The area where Aundre Cross was shot is not the ghetto. Not anywhere near. Our 'ghetto' is essentially five miles east and south of where he was shot (27W, 1N-27N) - or just north of our downtown on either side of the I-43 corridor.
Aundre worked out of the Hampton Avenue station - located at 65th and Fond du Lac. About 65W, 48N - much further away from the ghetto. The Hampton neighborhood had been a predominantly white German neighborhood, but is now probably 40% black, 60% white. Many smaller single-family homes and two-family homes in the area, predominantly built in the 40's and 50's - brick construction, decent sized lots. The area is lower middle class in income, but it is not the ghetto - far from it.
Unfortunately, these drive-by shootings are occurring everywhere, primarily in the north and northwest areas of the city in and out of the ghetto. From news reports, the guy actually got out of his car. Was he targeting Cross, or just anyone?
So, so sad. Aundre was married with four kids. Solid two-parent households are so important to this country, none more so than in the black community. So far, I see no announcement of a fund for the family - although I would expect one will be set up.
Last edited by Ariadne22; 12-13-2022 at 05:48 PM..
Update to this - the perpetrators have been caught. It appears mailman Cross was in the middle of a drug deal involving the perpetrators, probably stole their drugs.
Suspects borrowed a car, took off the plates, and stalked this guy. Owner of car initially deceived police but eventually identifed suspects.
Based on news reports the issue involved drugs. A package containing drugs was in Cross' possession on Dec. 2, not delivered and not returned to PO. Cross was shot a week later.
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According to the criminal complaint, McCaa and Ducksworth were allegedly seen on various surveillance videos following Cross while he was delivering mail in the area for about an hour prior to the murder. The vehicle they were using at the time did not have license plates.
It is unclear from the complaint if, or how, the suspects and Cross had any relationship prior to the murder. The complaint does detail a missing package suspected of containing drugs that was in Cross’ possession but never delivered nor returned to a postal facility on Dec. 2 around 9 p.m.
The complaint stated that this “could indicate that a USPS employee retained the parcel or provided it to someone else outside of normal operations.” It did not share any more details about this or how this, and other, packages mentioned in the complaint relate to the murder.
I told my DIL last week to me this appeared to be a targeted hit b/c it wasn't a drive-by shooting. Speculated exactly that in my earlier post above. Videos just prior to the shooting show the guy got out of the car to shoot this mailman. Turns out, I was right.
Last edited by Ariadne22; 12-31-2022 at 12:24 PM..
Long and short of this, per recent arrests, the Cross murder was a drug deal gone bad. A random shooting, this wasn't. Anywhere there are drugs, expect murders.
When I lived in Kansas City in the 80s, there were areas the Post office would not deliver mail. Too many robberies. Residents of those areas had to go to the PO to pick up mail. There was one area that an ambulance would not go without a police escort. They would send two cars. Two officers would go in with the EMTs. Two would guard the vehicles. Last time I was there, much of that area had been razed.
That particular robbery in Fort Worth was in an affluent area - certainly not a “ ghetto “ or “ no go zone”.
It was part of a Crime ring stealing Postal Box keys to steal checks and then chemically washing them . 6 months later the thief was convicted and sent to prison.
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Originally Posted by green_mariner
Keep the partisan stuff out of this. Delivering mail and packages has alot of risk to it. This could have happened in any cities, Democratic-ran or Republican-ran.
Jacksonville, FL, this year. Actually, this was last month.
Again, not a “ ghetto” area in Fort Worth - it was a random road rage shooting.
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Originally Posted by Ariadne22
I am a current lifetime resident of "Milwaukee" - born, raised, worked, retired here - for the past 60 years have lived in an suburb adjoining the city, worked most of my life in downtown Milwaukee - a five minute drive from my house. My 'suburban' neighborhood is fine, w/skyrocketing property values. Still consider myself a Milwaukeean.
The area where Aundre Cross was shot is not the ghetto. Not anywhere near. Our 'ghetto' is essentially five miles east and south of where he was shot (27W, 1N-27N) - or just north of our downtown on either side of the I-43 corridor.
Aundre worked out of the Hampton Avenue station - located at 65th and Fond du Lac. About 65W, 48N - much further away from the ghetto. The Hampton neighborhood had been a predominantly white German neighborhood, but is now probably 40% black, 60% white. Many smaller single-family homes and two-family homes in the area, predominantly built in the 40's and 50's - brick construction, decent sized lots. The area is lower middle class in income, but it is not the ghetto - far from it.
Unfortunately, these drive-by shootings are occurring everywhere, primarily in the north and northwest areas of the city in and out of the ghetto. From news reports, the guy actually got out of his car. Was he targeting Cross, or just anyone?
So, so sad. Aundre was married with four kids. Solid two-parent households are so important to this country, none more so than in the black community. So far, I see no announcement of a fund for the family - although I would expect one will be set up.
So — a drug deal and the mail worker was implicated. Turns out from your further post that Cross was the target.
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