Officers let a constabulary conveyance to walk nether yellowish transgression country portion connected a thoroughfare successful beforehand of the station bureau successful Memphis. Police said they are investigating a shooting astatine the station bureau successful Tennessee. (AP Photo/Adrian Sainz)

Officers let a constabulary conveyance to walk nether yellowish transgression country portion connected a thoroughfare successful beforehand of the station bureau successful Memphis. Police said they are investigating a shooting astatine the station bureau successful Tennessee. (AP Photo/Adrian Sainz) (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Two U.S. Postal Service workers were fatally changeable Tuesday astatine a postal installation successful Memphis and a 3rd worker identified arsenic the shooter died from a self-inflicted gunshot, authorities said. It was the 3rd high-profile shooting successful oregon adjacent that westbound Tennessee metropolis successful weeks.

U.S. Postal Inspector Susan Link said that 3 postal workers were recovered dormant aft the shooting astatine the East Lamar Carrier Annex successful a salient Memphis neighborhood. FBI spokeswoman Lisa-Anne Culp said the shooting was carried retired by a 3rd postal work worker, who changeable him oregon herself.

No identities oregon motive were released by authorities astatine an archetypal quality briefing precocious Tuesday afternoon.

The shooting occurred astatine the station bureau subdivision successful the historical Orange Mound neighborhood, southeast of downtown Memphis.

The thoroughfare starring to the station bureau was blocked by constabulary Tuesday day pursuing the shooting, and national authorities besides gathered astatine the site.

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A achromatic four-door car was towed from the scene, but it was not wide who it belonged to.

“The Postal Service is saddened astatine the events that took spot contiguous successful Memphis," USPS said successful a statement. "Our thoughts are with the household members, friends and coworkers of the individuals involved. The Postal Service volition beryllium providing resources to each employees astatine the East Lamar Carrier Annex successful the coming days and weeks.”

The unit follows different shootings successful the Memphis country successful caller weeks. The franchise proprietor of a sushi antagonistic wrong a Kroger market store fatally changeable 1 idiosyncratic and wounded 14 others earlier sidesplitting himself connected Sept. 23, investigators said. A week later, a teenage lad was changeable and critically wounded wrong a Memphis schoolhouse and constabulary detained a 2nd lad believed to beryllium the shooter.

On Oct. 18, 2010, 2 message workers were fatally changeable during a robbery astatine a station bureau successful the agrarian West Tennessee municipality of Henning. The station bureau was named successful grant of the slain employees past week.

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