Aundre Cross: Wisconsin USPS workers mourn colleague, 44, who was shot dead while delivering mail
MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN: The horrifying murder of a United States Postal Service carrier has left his family and co-workers devastated. Aundre Cross was reportedly delivering his mail on Friday, December 9, when an unidentified suspect(s) shot him dead. The incident reportedly happened close to 65th and Lancaster around 4.40 pm and it has been said that the killer(s) was driving an Audi Q5 SUV with tinted windows.
The 44-year-old victim was a father-of-four and a husband. He had reportedly been working as a postal worker for 18 years. “Aundre was a brother, a mentor. He was just a beacon of light to all of us,” Tia R, an ex-colleague, stated. She also also pleaded that “if you know your mail carrier’s out there, your delivery driver’s outside, just make sure they make it to their truck and they go home safely. That’s all we want to do, is go home at the end of the night,” as per WISN-TV.
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Melissa Carter, a friend and another colleague of Cross, reportedly said, “Aundre came to work every day with a smile on his face. If you was sad, he was going to make sure gonna get a smile. He's going to make you laugh every day.”
Jyfena Brown, the victim’s co-worker, also spoke about him as reported by WISN-TV, “If you had a bad morning, he could come in loud, joyful, change your whole mood. Forget what you were even upset about. He was a good person. Had three beautiful kids, a wife. Imagine how they feel, two weeks before Christmas,” before adding, “Being a carrier in Milwaukee is very scary now. And you are alone on the route. It's just literally you and the mail. It's sad to see someone good like him. It just hurts because he didn't deserve this at all.”
Sherry Adams, who lived on the route Cross regularly used to deliver mail on, reportedly said, “He touched so many lives, so many, and we as a community are hurting really, really bad. It’s going to take us a while to move past this.”
Meanwhile, a vigil was held in Milwaukee’s Hampton Heights neighborhood on Saturday, December 10, in memory of Cross, where hundreds of people came together. Tia told TMJ4 News, “We’re postal family. This is past and present, you know, these are postal family managers carriers, clerks. When you work for the postal office you are always family.”
Besides, a $50,000 reward has been announced by the USPS to anyone who helps police nab down the accused. TMJ4 News reported that “the suspect in the case is to be considered armed and dangerous, according to the U.S. Postal Inspection Service." If you recognize the vehicle or have any information on this incident, please contact the inspection service at 1-877-876-2455 (say law enforcement) or the police department at 414-935-7360.