A mother of two and longtime postal worker was killed while delivering mail Tuesday in North Carolina, officials said, leaving her children orphaned just months after their father died in a December car accident.
Brandi Reynolds, who was a postal deliver driver for the United States Postal Service, was shot and killed on Friday just before 4:16 p.m. in Hayes, North Carolina, according to the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation. William Craig Durham was arrested after allegedly killing Reynolds and is charged with kidnapping and murder.
Authorities found Reynolds dead when they arrived to the scene.
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Reynolds was employed as a rural mail carrier for the USPS, according to The Wilkes Record. She was delivering mail when Durham allegedly shot and killed her, according to the Charlotte Observer.
Authorities alleged in an arrest report obtained by the Charlotte Observer that Durham restrained Reynolds and removed “the victim from one place to another without the consent of the victim.”
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Reynolds’ husband Brent Reynolds passed away after he was in a car accident in December. The couple have two kids, who will now be without parents.
In a Facebook post from February, Reynolds wrote in a caption of a picture with her two kids: “The reason I get up every morning. Love these babies. They are what makes life worth living.”
She frequently posted pictures with her kids and husband on social media. In one post about her child, Reynolds wrote: “I couldn’t deny this baby if I tried. Love her so much and man do i wish i could slow time down and keep her little forever.”
Officials haven’t revealed any relationship between Reynolds and Durham.