Two masked teens robbed a Brooklyn mail carrier at gunpoint, stealing several packages she was delivering, police said Wednesday.
The crooks ambushed the 39-year-old U.S. Postal Service worker as she delivered mail on Greene Ave. near Malcolm X Blvd. in Bedford-Stuyvesant about 2:15 p.m. Tuesday, cops said.
The crooks, believed to be between 16 and 19, pulled a gun on the worker before running off with several packages, cops said. They have not been caught.
The pair were dressed all in black and were wearing masks, the postal worker told police.
The daring hold-up occurred five days after an on-duty letter carrier was knifed to death during a senseless fight over a spot on a sandwich line in a Harlem deli.
Ray ‘Ray Ray’ Hodges, 36, was waiting to order a sandwich at Joe’s Grocery on Lenox Ave. near W. 118th St. when he got into a quarrel with 24-year-old Jaia Cruz.
Witnesses said Hodges was about to make his order when Cruz accused him of cutting her place in line. As the argument escalated, Cruz allegedly stabbed Hodges five times with a steak knife in the neck, chest, and arm, according to a criminal complaint.
Hodges died after being rushed to Harlem Hospital.
Cruz ran to her nearby home after stabbing Hodges, but was quickly taken into custody and charged with murder, cops said.