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Federal prosecutors have filed murder and other charges against a man accused of killing a letter carrier in Indianapolis after his mail was suspended because of an aggressive dog.
U.S. Attorney Josh Minkler's office charged Tony Cushingberry-Mays with second-degree murder, assaulting a federal employee and discharging a firearm during a crime, according to court documents filed Wednesday.
Cushingberry-Mays, 21, was arrested Tuesday night in the shooting that killed Angela Summers.
When Summers bypassed Cushingberry-Mays' home about 4 p.m. Monday, authorities say he confronted Summers on a neighbor's porch and demanded the mail.
Summers sprayed Cushingberry-Mays with mace, authorities said, and then he shot her.
Cushingberry-Mays was with his attorney Tuesday night when he admitted to shooting the letter carrier, according to the documents.
"He stated the letter carrier was not delivering the mail because she was having a problem with the dog at his residence," Postal Inspector Joseph J. De St Jean wrote in the complaint.
Mail delivery had been suspended because of an aggressive dog at Cushingberry-Mays' home, according to the criminal complaint.
Summers passed Cushingberry-Mays' home without dropping off the mail on Monday.
Cushingberry-Mays approached Summers on his neighbor's front porch, standing about 6 feet away, and repeatedly asked her for the mail.
"He said the letter carrier turned around, grabbed her mace spray and sprayed (him)," De St Jean wrote.
"Cushingberry-Mays then pulled his handgun from the right side of his waistband ... and fired one shot."
Summers, 45, was fatally shot Monday afternoon as she delivered mail in the 400 block of North Denny Street, a neighborhood near East Michigan Street and North Sherman Drive.
Source: Indianapolis Star
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