According to witnesses, an armed Good Samaritan foiled an attempted robbery of a postal worker in a suburb of Chicago.
“I heard a bang, bang and bang, bang, bang, then my mom yells, ‘Tell me those weren’t gunshots,'” a witness who lives in the area told NBC Chicago Tuesday of the incident in River Grove, Illinois.
Police said they responded at around 9:30 a.m. Tuesday in a neighborhood in the village of River Grove to find a US Postal Service worker being approached by an armed suspect who demanded his keys.
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The postman obeyed, but an armed witness intervened and shot the suspect, witnesses speaking to various local media reported.
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Richard Street in River Grove, Illinois, where a postal worker was reportedly the victim of an attempted robbery. (Google Maps)
Police said, according to NBC Chicago, that “words and gunfire were exchanged” and that “the male suspect ran back to the vehicle that dropped him off and the vehicle fled north on River Road.”
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A pair of sisters from the neighborhood said their mother took the postal worker to her home after the shooting and said he was shocked by the incident.
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“My mother let the postman into our house to see if he was okay because she speaks to him regularly. He always comes here,” the older sister told NBC Chicago.
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“He was just very desperate, very scared. You could tell from what had just happened that he was very nervous,” said the other sister.
A U.S. Postal Service truck exits a postal facility in Chicago on August 15, 2019. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
The sisters said their neighborhood was generally quiet and they initially thought they heard firecrackers, not gunshots.
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No one was injured in the attempted robbery or shooting, and the mail vehicle was not stolen.
Local police are working with the United States Postal Inspection Service in the investigation.
Investigators believe four suspects were involved in the attempted robbery and are believed to be armed and dangerous.
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Authorities are offering a $50,000 reward for anyone who provides information leading to an arrest.