Leroy Orrin Phillips

In the summer of 1986, a quiet suburban post office in Edmond, Oklahoma, became the scene of a horrific act of violence that shattered the community's sense of peace. On the morning of August 20th, Leroy Orrin Phillips, a 42-year-old rural carrier, went to his job, unaware of the tragedy that was about to unfold. He was one of fourteen postal workers whose lives would be abruptly cut short in a deadly workplace shooting that would become one of the most infamous in U.S. history.

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

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