Published February 05, 2019
A longtime postal worker was shot and killed along an interstate in a suburb of Chicago -- just a few miles from where another shooting wounded three people only hours before, police said.
The Postal Service said Tamara Clayton-Shelton had been employed with the agency since 1993 and was a mail handler at the Chicago International Military Service Center facility.
State police said Clayton-Shelton, 55, was alone in a car when she was shot around 10 p.m. Monday on northbound Interstate 57 near Oak Forest, just south of Chicago. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Police who responded to the scene initially believed it to be a single-vehicle crash before finding Clayton-Shelton with an apparent gunshot wound.
The Postal Service said in a statement it was “deeply saddened on hearing of this tragedy” and offered its prayers to Clayton-Shelton's family.
The shooting occurred about six hours after a 38-year-old man was critically wounded in a shooting a few miles away on I-57 near Calumet Park. Police said 15- and 12-year-old boys were also shot and wounded in that incident. Both are in stable condition.
An 8-year-old girl in the same vehicle wasn’t shot but was also taken to a hospital.
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A police spokesman on Tuesday declined to say whether investigators believe the shootings are linked, saying officers “have come to no conclusions.”
Additional information was not immediately available.
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