On the afternoon of March 21, 1995, the small Watchung Avenue satellite post office in Montclair, New Jersey, was the scene of a deadly armed robbery. Postal worker Ernest Spruill, 56 and with over 30 years of service who was nearing retirement, was shot and killed inside the office. Three other men were also killed that day: colleague Stanley Walensky and customers Robert Leslie and George Lomaga; a fifth man, David Grossman, was critically wounded but survived.

Authorities identified the shooter as 29-year-old Christopher Green, a former temporary employee of the post office who had worked alongside Spruill and Walensky. Investigators say Green forced the five men to the floor and shot them at close range with a 9-millimeter handgun during a robbery motivated by heavy debt; Green later confessed and admitted using the stolen money to pay debts including back rent. The Montclair community was left reeling by the violence and the loss of a long-serving postal employee.

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