NYC woman in custody for stabbing US Postal Service worker to death in dispute at deli sandwich line

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Posted on 01/03/2025 8:09:36 AM PST by Salman

A woman is in custody for the fatal stabbing of a postal worker following a dispute over sandwiches at a Manhattan deli on Thursday, law enforcement sources told the Daily News.

The 36-year-old mailman was on duty for the U.S. Postal Service when he stopped at Joe’s Grocery on Lenox Road near W. 118th St. to order a sandwich around 2:30 p.m., cops said.

When the postal worker placed his order, a woman there became enraged, claiming he had cut her in line and the two began shouting at each other, a witness told The News.

“It was over a sandwich,” said Janet Rich, who was in the deli buying coffee when the fight broke out. “It was, ‘I was next. No, I was next.’ It was for nothing.”

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Not this time, Yogi. Pic at link.

1 posted on 01/03/2025 8:09:36 AM PST by Salman

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2 posted on 01/03/2025 8:12:07 AM PST by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)

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