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Local Postal Worker Charged With Killing Supervisor, Inspector

Franklin County Sheriff's Office

A disgruntled mail carrier accused in the slayings of his supervisor at the Dublin post office and a postal inspector outside her apartment complex has been charged with aggravated murder. 

The worker is identified in Franklin County Municipal Court records as 24-year-old DeShaune Stewart, of Columbus. Stewart is accused of fatally shooting 52-year-old Lance Dempsey shortly before 4:30 a.m. Saturday at the post office in Dublin. Police say Stewart then drove to a Columbus apartment complex nearby and shot the postal inspector, 53-year-old Ginger Ballard, in a parking lot nearly three hours later. Police say Stewart had been facing dismissal from his job.

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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