NEW YORK: A girl accused of stabbing a postal employee to demise in a New York Metropolis deli was charged Friday (Jan 3) with homicide. Witnesses stated the killing adopted a quarrel over whose flip it was to order.
Jaia Cruz, 24, was being held with out bail after her arraignment within the killing of letter service Ray Hodge. A message looking for remark was left for Cruz’s lawyer.
Hodge, 36, was stabbed within the chest, neck and arms Thursday afternoon at a Harlem deli, in keeping with a court docket criticism. Police discovered him wounded on the ground in his postal uniform.
One other buyer, Janet Wealthy, instructed the Every day Information that Hodge and Cruz argued on the sandwich counter over who was subsequent. Wealthy stated she and one other particular person tried unsuccessfully to intervene.
The US Postal Inspection Service stated Hodge was a letter service assigned to Manhattan.
Neighbours created a memorial outdoors his Bronx dwelling Friday, putting candles round his postal hat.
A resident on his postal route, Alejandro Alarcon, instructed the New York Publish the letter service prolonged himself to help clients. Alarcon stated Hodge helped him verify on a package deal shortly earlier than the postal worker’s demise.
