Jonna Ruth Gragert

Death by Force

On an otherwise ordinary Wednesday in Edmond, Oklahoma, the morning of August 20, 1986, turned into a scene of unimaginable horror. Inside the Edmond Post Office, Jonna Ruth Gragert, a 30-year-old female employee, was going about her duties, unaware of the tragedy that was about to unfold and cut her life short. The workplace she knew would soon become a place of violence and remembrance.

The perpetrator, a part-time letter carrier named Patrick Sherrill, who was facing the possibility of ...Read More

Edmond Post Office Massacre | The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture

MAIL CARRIER KILLS 14 IN POST OFFICE, THEN HIMSELF (Published 1986)

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