Mailman murder suspect with history of violence indicted in brazen lunch break attack

A 24-year-old transgender New Yorker has been indicted connected second-degree execution charges successful transportation with the stabbing decease of a United States message bearer during his luncheon interruption earlier this month, according to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

Jaia Cruz, the 6-foot-4-inch fishy besides known arsenic Alvin, allegedly started an statement with 36-year-old postal bearer Ray Hodge III arsenic they stood successful enactment to bid luncheon sandwiches connected Jan. 2.

Cruz allegedly pulled retired a weapon and stabbed Hodge repeatedly successful beforehand of horrified customers, chap postal carriers and unit astatine the edifice connected Manhattan's Lenox Avenue, betwixt West 118th and West 119th Streets.

MAILMAN'S FAMILY BREAKS SILENCE AFTER FATHER OF 2 KILLED ON LUNCH BREAK

USPS postal bearer Ray Hodge III delivers the message successful an undated household photograph provided by his brother, Ed Rice. (Courtesy of Ed RIce)

Hodge suffered weapon wounds to his chest, cervix and arm, authorities said.

Cruz walked location aft the onslaught and was arrested later.

SUSPECT CHARGED IN FATAL STABBING OF POSTAL WORKER IN NYC DELI OVER SPOT IN LINE HAS HISTORY OF KNIFE VIOLENCE

Jaia Cruz, a 24-year-old female, was arrested and transported by the NYPD from the 28th Precinct aft allegedly stabbing a postal idiosyncratic to decease successful a deli portion moving successful Harlem. (Kyle Mazza/Sipa/IMAGN)

Hodge was pronounced deceased astatine Harlem Hospital. He was a begetter of 2 whose colleagues astatine the USPS remembered him arsenic a "great, benignant soul" connected societal media.

"We are highly wounded and saddened by the nonaccomplishment of my brother," his member Ed Rice told Fox News Digital previously. "He was a singular idiosyncratic and touched a batch of radical successful a affirmative manner. We person been soundless successful our grieving and are handling my brother’s affairs." 

Cruz has a criminal record that includes anterior acts of weapon violence, including a mugging.

NYPD MAKES ARREST IN FATAL STABBING OF ON-DUTY POSTAL WORKER

The NYPD has charged Jaia Cruz successful the fatal stabbing of a USPS idiosyncratic wrong a Harlem deli. (Peter Gerber)

As the New York lawsuit moves forward, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Postal Service's law enforcement arm, is asking anyone with further accusation connected the lawsuit to telephone investigators astatine 1-877-876-2455.

"This alleged broad-daylight stabbing shook the neighborhood, including the deli workers and customers who witnessed the attack," Bragg said. "My thoughts are with those grieving the nonaccomplishment of Ray Hodge, a postal idiosyncratic and beloved begetter of two."

The NYPD has charged Jaia Cruz successful the fatal stabbing of a USPS idiosyncratic wrong a Harlem deli. (Peter Gerber)

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The household created a GoFundMe run to screen ceremonial costs.

"Ray touched the lives of everyone helium interacted with," the fundraiser reads. "Ray was a hardworking, honorable and bully antheral whose beingness epitomized his values and his willingness to assistance others. Ray touched the lives of truthful many, and we each are genuinely blessed to person known and had the accidental to emotion him."