Video shows person of interest in fatal shooting of Chicago postal worker Octavia Redmond

Chicago police have released video footage of a person of interest wanted for the fatal shooting of a postal worker last month in West Pullman.

Octavia Redmond, 48, was fatally shot on July 19, while delivering mail in the 12100 block of South Harvard Avenue, Chicago police said.

Video footage released Tuesday shows a person in all black jump out of the passenger seat of a black SUV, run across the street and return to the car about 10 seconds later.

Police also released video of the person before the shooting, getting into a white SUV in the 7000 block of South Campbell Avenue.

Redmond was in front of a home about 11:40 a.m. when someone fired at her, police said.

She was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in critical condition, where she was later pronounced dead, police said. She suffered 26 gunshot wounds to her body, according to a police report.

The U.S. Postal Inspection Service has offered a $250,000 reward for information on the case.

Fellow postal workers have remembered Redmond as a nurturing mother and grandmother and the wife of another postal worker. The letter carriers union, which represented Redmond, has called for action following her brazen death.

“We want to go home to our families. Unfortunately, one of ours will not be going home. We’ve got a problem with that,” Elise Foster, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 11, said in July.

More than 140 letter carriers have been attacked on the job in Chicago since August 2022, according to Foster.

Anyone with information on the shooting or the person captured in the video is asked to call Area Two at (312) 747-8271. Anonymous tips can also be submitted to cpdtip.com