Not Guilty: Deshaune Stewart Thought He Was Going To Be Terminated So He Went Postal

[Sugar Cookie]

A disgruntled mail carrier accused in the slayings of his supervisor at an Ohio 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 Lance Herrera-Dempsey, 52, shortly before 4:30 am Saturday in the sorting bay at the post office in Dublin.

He was naked at the time.

Police say Stewart then drove to a Columbus apartment complex nearby and shot the postal inspector, Ginger Ballard, in a parking lot nearly three hours later.

Cops say Stewart had been facing dismissal from his job and was still nude when he was arrested. He had also been disciplined for work violations.

Police Sgt. Dave Sicilian told NBC 4i that Stewart was under investigation at his job.

“One was his supervisor, the other was an investigator who was investigating him for some type of misconduct,' said Sicilian.

'There had been some type of investigation into his misconduct and it had culminated and to possibly him being terminated and this was apparently his response was very violent.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...pect-Ohio-postal-worker-slayings-charged.html
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[Brillig]

They call it "going postal" for a reason.

You would think the USPS would have figured out by now that they need to do much better mental health screenings before hiring employees.

 

[FrayedKnot]

Naked....why????

 

[Sue sue]

Naked....why????

To claim insanity or to keep blood of clothes.
[doublepost=1514121985,1514121947][/doublepost]This should be a federal case so he should get the death penalty.

 

[Brillig]

Naked....why????

Why not? If you're gonna kill people and go to jail for life, why not make an extra big splash?

 

[Stormcloud]

Well, he'll certainly be terminated now.

 

[FrayedKnot]

Why not? If you're gonna kill people and go to jail for life, why not make an extra big splash?

I guess.

Kinda chilly though. I would at least have to wear some fuzzy socks if I were going on a nekkid killing spree.

 

[Sejanus]

Ok so now they are dead he gets to keep his job right?
Whaddya mean NO?
He had it planned out and everything.

Guy is a dicktube.
Terminate him...with lethal injection.

 

[cubby]

He was naked at the time.

I'm sure that's what was getting him fired, naked mail delivery. Cause why not?

Some people You just can't take anywhere, except back to aplogize.

 

[mybum62]

Probably drugged up and naked

 

[Dead Stephanie]

What’s wrong with his nose?

 

[Ripley]

What’s wrong with his nose?

Probably a deviated septum which can affect the nostril openings. Like mine!

 

[Dead Stephanie]

Probably a deviated septum which can affect the nostril openings. Like mine!

I was wondering if somebody broke his nose, mine looked like that after I hit my face on a steering wheel when a bridge and I got into a scuffle

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Sep 25, 2019

A Columbus man was found not guilty “only by reason of insanity” for the brutal killings of two of his Dublin post office supervisors two days before Christmas in 2017.

DeShaune K. Stewart, 25, could have faced the death penalty on two counts of murder of an officer of the United States. Instead, he will be evaluated and likely confined to prison for the foreseeable future after multiple psychologists determined he had suffered manic and psychotic episodes at the time of the crimes and was not fully aware of his actions.

It was an unusual case, as both prosecutors and defense attorneys agreed from the start on the facts of the case and the expected sentence.

Stewart arrived naked at the Emerald Parkway post office in Dublin just before 4:30 a.m. on Dec. 23, 2017, where he killed his supervisor, Lance Herrera-Dempsey. Stewart then drove to the Northwest Side apartment of Dublin postmaster Ginger E. Ballard, whom he later beat to death in the parking lot.

Stewart was arrested at the latter scene, later telling police that God told him to kill his supervisors, at one point spitting out two pieces of Ballard’s jewelry that he claimed were being used to “suck out his soul,” according to documents.

“Stewart told investigators that he decided to kill the victims the morning before the murders,” said Special Assistant U.S. Attorney James L. Lowe. “He stayed in a hotel the night before the murders because he was afraid ... the victims were putting ‘spells’ on him.”

Stewart opted against speaking until after the final sentence was announced, when he apologized to the family members of the two people he killed.

“I’m sorry for taking them away from you,” Stewart said. “At the time, I thought I was commanded by God ...”

Watson will determine Stewart’s future after a new psychiatric evaluation. He likely will be confined and reevaluated every six months to determine whether he is a danger.

“I can’t see there being a time when we can risk that,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney David M. DeVillers of Stewart’s possible future release.

Man who killed 2 postal supervisors found not guilty by reason of insanity

A Columbus man charged in the brutal killings of two Dublin post office supervisors in 2017 was found not guilty by reason of insanity Tuesday. DeShaune K.

www.dispatch.com