NEW YORK: A lady accused of stabbing a postal employee to loss of life in a New York Metropolis deli was charged Friday (Jan 3) with homicide. Witnesses mentioned 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 provider Ray Hodge. A message in search of remark was left for Cruz’s lawyer.
Hodge, 36, was stabbed within the chest, neck and arms Thursday afternoon at a Harlem deli, in line with a court docket criticism. Police discovered him wounded on the ground in his postal uniform.
One other buyer, Janet Wealthy, advised the Every day Information that Hodge and Cruz argued on the sandwich counter over who was subsequent. Wealthy mentioned she and one other particular person tried unsuccessfully to intervene.
The US Postal Inspection Service mentioned Hodge was a letter provider assigned to Manhattan.
Neighbours created a memorial exterior his Bronx dwelling Friday, inserting candles round his postal hat.
A resident on his postal route, Alejandro Alarcon, advised the New York Submit the letter provider prolonged himself to help prospects. Alarcon mentioned Hodge helped him examine on a bundle shortly earlier than the postal worker’s loss of life.
