Postal Employee Shot In Woodbridge While Delivering Mail

WOODBRIDGE, VA — Prince William County police and U.S. Postal Service inspectors are investigating the shooting of a Postal Service employee in Woodbridge Monday afternoon who was delivering mail. The postal employee, who was flown to a nearby hospital with serious injuries, is expected to survive.

Police officers arrived in the 3500 block of Buffalo Court in Woodbridge around 4:50 p.m. Monday to investigate the shooting. The USPS employee, a 28-year-old man, was delivering mail when an unknown man approached him and shot him in the lower body.

A police K-9 and helicopter with the Fairfax County Police Department responded to search the for the suspect who was not located.

The suspect is a Black male who is about 20 to 30 years old, the police said. He is about 6-feet tall, with a medium build, and was last seen wearing a white t-shirt, black pants, no shoes, and a blue surgical mask, according to the Prince William County Police Department.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact the Prince William County Police Department tip line at 703-792-7000 or submit a web tip to: www.pwcgov.org/policetip.