California USPS employee robbed at gunpoint in daytime attack

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By Brie Stimson, Fox News

A 63-year-old postal worker is recovering after she was robbed at gunpoint by masked assailants in Dublin, California, this week in a shocking midday attack captured on surveillance video.

In the video, the 33-year veteran of the U.S. Postal Service is seen putting mail in a mailbox in a residential neighborhood east of San Francisco around 4:30 p.m. when a masked man dressed in black runs up from behind and grabs her , and points a gun at her head as a second masked person runs towards her and surrounds her.

“Someone came up behind me and said ‘boom’ and just hit me and put a gun to my head,” the postal worker, who did not want to be identified, told FOX 2. “He said, ‘Give me your keys. ‘ You don’t want to die, do you?’ I’m like, ‘No, no, no.’ So I reached in, got my keys and he said, ‘Where’s your phone? You have two minutes.'”

She said she thought, “I’m going to die.”

Although she feared they would shoot, she said she kept telling herself to “stay calm.”

After the robbers ran off on foot with her cellphone and the keys to several mailboxes and her truck, the woman went to a neighbor’s house and called 911.

Police are still searching for the suspects and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service is offering a $150,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.

In a surveillance video, a blue Infiniti can be seen driving to and from the crime scene.

“I’m scared, I can’t sleep. “My heart is pounding,” she told the station, adding that although she was not injured in the attack, she is seeing a therapist about her trauma.

But she says she hopes she can return to her job.

“I like my job,” she explained. “I love my customers. I love serving them.”

The Dublin attack is the latest in a series of crimes against postal workers across the country.