DC Letter Carrier Delivers Help to Elderly Woman Attacked in NW

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Letter carrier Teddy Settles (right) became a neighborhood hero last week when he tipped off police that an elderly woman on his route in Northwest DC had been beaten and robbed. When Settles knocked on the 81-year-old woman’s door to deliver her mail last Wednesday, “I noticed she was disturbed,” the NALC Branch 142 member told NBC News4’s Pat Collins, “and when I asked what had happened she said she’d been attacked and robbed,” so Settles called the police, who soon arrested an 18-year-old man. Click here for more inspiring stories of Letter Carrier Heroes. - photo courtesy NBC News4
NOTE: The original story has been updated; the attack was in NW, not SE DC.