Overview
- A rural United States Postal Service carrier, Brandi Reynolds, was allegedly abducted and shot while delivering mail on Friday in Hays, North Carolina, after a witness reported an armed man and multiple gunshots.
- Police arrested 56-year-old William Craig Durham and charged him with first-degree murder and first-degree kidnapping; a judge ordered him held without bond.
- Court records and a warrant allege Reynolds was restrained and removed from one place to another without her consent, and deputies found her dead at the scene.
- Reynolds was a mother of two whose husband died in a December vehicle crash, leaving her children without both parents and prompting shock and grief in the local community.
- The United States Postal Inspection Service, the Wilkes County Sheriff’s Office and the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation are leading the inquiry and investigators have not publicly released a motive or full timeline.