Teen arrested months after USPS worker fatally shot in Chicago

A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with this summer's fatal shooting of a mother and postal worker killed while working in Chicago, police confirmed this week.

The teenager taken into custody in Iowa on Monday is charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of postal worker Octavia Redmond, Chicago police told USA TODAY.

Redmond, 48, was found fatally shot as she walked in the West Pullman neighborhood on July 19, according to police and the coroner's office.

Police did not give a motive for the killing.

Chicago police said investigators used police and private camera footage to identify the teenager and track his movements before and after the shooting.

Investigators also received an anonymous tip to identify the suspect and have been looking for other people involved in the case since this week, police said.

USA TODAY is not releasing the teen's name because he is a minor.

Where was Octavia Redmond shot?

Officials said the shooting occurred late morning July 19 while Redmond was out and about.

The suspect got out of a stolen white Dodge Durango, approached Redmond, shot her several times at close range and then fled in the vehicle, the U.S. Postal Service reported.

Redmond later died in a hospital.

The suspect's vehicle was found by police the following day, the USPS wrote in a news release.

As of Wednesday, nearly $8,000 of the fundraiser's $12,000 goal had been donated.

“Redmond was a wife and mother and was considered an important person to the postal customers she served,” the Postal Service said in a news release Tuesday. “We hope this brings some relief to the Redmond family.”

“There is no place for this type of senseless violence,” Ruth M. Mendonça, inspector in charge of the Chicago division of the USPS, said in the statement. “When members of our postal family are targeted, postal inspectors will not rest until they receive justice.” is delivered on behalf of the victims, their families and our postal community. This arrest is the first step in bringing justice to Ms. Redmond.”

“Octavia is the love of my life and I don't want to be in a world that she isn't a part of,” the victim's husband, Demetrius Redmond, told USA TODAY.

He started a fundraiser to help her family with funeral costs.

“The Redmond family is devastated by the tragic loss of the Queen of our family,” her husband wrote on the page, adding that proceeds will go directly to her family to help with grief and funeral costs.

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