The attorney for the suspect accused of fatally stabbing a U.S. Postal Service worker in New York City earlier this month offered a different account of what led up to the killing.

I hope he’s maggot food,” Jaia Cruz, 24, told detectives in a statement recorded at the 28th Precinct stationhouse hours after the Jan. 2 stabbing.

An on-duty United States Postal Service (USPS) worker was stabbed and killed inside of a deli in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City on Thursday afternoon after a "verbal dispute," according to ...

Jaia Cruz, 24, indicted in stabbing murder of US mailman Ray Hodge III on his lunch break at a Manhattan deli earlier this month.

Police are searching for a suspect accused of trying to rob a United States Postal Office in Manhattan on Jan. 10. The incident happened around 6:15 p.m. at 153 ...

The sicko who allegedly knifed a postal worker during a spat at a Harlem deli confessed to the shocking slaying — unapologetically declaring that the father-of-two “deserved it,” ...

The United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) confirmed Hodges was the victim. Hodges, 36, was taken to Harlem Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The New York Post reported that Cruz ...

NEW YORK — A United States Postal Service worker was fatally stabbed Thursday while ordering a sandwich at a deli in Harlem. Police say officers were sent to the deli on Lenox Avenue between ...

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He was a letter carrier and was on duty at the time of the incident, according to the United States Postal Inspection Service. His postal cart could be seen sitting outside the deli.

“The Postal Inspection Service can confirm that on January 2, 2025, a United States Postal Service letter carrier, assigned to Manhattan, was the victim of a homicide,” a spokesperson for the ...