Postal Worker Shot in Drive-By Leaves Hospital
A letter carrier was released from the hospital Friday, a day after she was shot twice in a drive-by attack in South Los Angeles shortly after getting off work.
About 7 p.m. Thursday, Teresa Minor, 23, walked to the parking lot next to the post office in the 8500 block of South Broadway and discovered that her car had a flat tire, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
After she called a friend for help, a sedan described only as “powder blue” drove by and the two men inside opened fire, police said, with shots striking Minor in the arm and upper torso. She was hospitalized overnight and released Friday morning.
“Her spirits were good and she’s willing to go back to work,” said Renee Focht, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Postal Inspector’s office in Pasadena. But it isn’t clear when Minor will resume the letter-carrying duties she started three months ago, Focht said.
The police and postal inspectors have no motive for the shooting, although it is not believed to be related to the post office, Focht said.
Counselors were available Friday at the Broadway Manchester Post Office, but Focht said employees “were pretty OK,” especially because Minor escaped serious injury.
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