ELK GROVE VILLAGE, Ill. — An Elk Grove Village man has been charged with trying to kill a U.S. Postal Service worker who was delivering mail in the western suburb on New Year’s Eve.
Cameron Ruebusch, 24, was indicted Thursday on federal charges of attempted murder, assault with a dangerous weapon, discharging a weapon during a violent crime and illegal possession of a firearm by a felon, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois.
The mail carrier had just completed a delivery about 6 p.m. on Dec. 31, 2018, in the 200 block of West Brantwood Avenue when Ruebusch approached the unmarked postal service vehicle and said something to him, prosecutors and Elk Grove Village police said.
When the mail carrier tried to drive away, Ruebusch fired a handgun, wounding the man, prosecutors said.
