A 63-year-old postal worker is recovering after masked assailants robbed her at gunpoint in Dublin, California, this week in a shocking midday attack caught on surveillance video.
The 33-year-old U.S. Postal Service veteran is seen in the video dropping mail into a mailbox around 4:30 p.m. in a residential neighborhood east of San Francisco, when a masked man dressed in black runs toward her. her from behind and grabs her. , and points a gun at her head as a second masked person runs to surround her.
“Somebody came up behind me and 'boom,' he just punched me and put a gun to my head,” the postal worker, who asked not to be identified, told FOX 2. “He told me, 'Give me your keys. You don't want to die, do you?' I say, 'No, no, no.' “.
A postal worker is surrounded by two robbers in California. (FOX 2)
She said she thought, “I'm going to die.”
Although she was worried she was going to be shot, she said she told herself to “stay calm.”
After the thieves fled on foot with her cell phone and the keys to several mailboxes and her truck, the woman went to a neighbor's house and called 911.
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Police are still searching for the thieves in a joint investigation with US postal inspectors. (FOX 2)
Police are still searching for the suspects and the United States Postal Inspection Service is offering a $150,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.
In the surveillance video, a blue Infiniti is seen entering and leaving the scene.
“I feel anxious, I can't sleep. My heart is pounding,” she told the station, adding that while she was not injured in the attack, she is seeing a therapist for her trauma.
The woman is a 33-year veteran of the postal service. (FOX 2)
But he says he hopes to be able to return to his job.
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“I like my job,” he 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.
