Angela Summers was a 45-year-old United States Postal Service mail carrier who was shot and killed on her route in an east Indianapolis neighborhood on April 27, 2020. A mother to a 14-year-old daughter, she had been with the postal service for less than two years and served as a union steward.

In the days before her death Summers had posted about an aggressive Chihuahua at a residence on North Denny Street, saying she had used her mail carrier spray on the dog twice. Mail delivery to that address was suspended, and a 21-year-old resident of the home, Tony Cushingberry-Mays, was upset that his mail had stopped and believed a stimulus check was being withheld. On the afternoon of April 27 he confronted Summers on a neighbor’s porch demanding his mail. After she reportedly used her mace on him, he drew a handgun and shot her in the chest at point-blank range.

A neighbor heard the shot and found Summers bleeding; she was taken to a hospital where she later died. Cushingberry-Mays fled, hid the firearm in a nearby garage, and was arrested the next day after investigators recovered the weapon and matching ammunition. Anyone who knew Summers or witnessed the incident is asked to come forward with information.