CHICAGO – A teen who pleaded guilty to fatally shooting US Postal Service worker Octavia Redmond when he was 15 years old was sentenced to five years in juvenile detention.
The backstory:
The deadly shooting happened on July 2019, 2024 in the West Pullman neighborhood.
At about 11:38 a.m., Redmond was delivering mail to homes in the 12100 block of South Harvard when someone approached her and fired multiple shots before speeding away in a white Dodge Durango.
Redmond, 48, was shot multiple times and taken to Christ Hospital, where she later died.
The next day, the vehicle believed to be used in the murder was discovered torched in the 8900 block of South Holland Road in Chicago’s West Chatham neighborhood.
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