DALLAS, TX (WBAP/KLIF NEWS) – An arrest has been made in the shooting death of a U.S. Postal Service employee in Dallas.
The U.S. Attorney’s office says one person was taken into custody early this morning in relation to the shooting that left 58-year-old Tony Mosby dead. Mosby was shot to death while driving his mail truck Monday morning on I-30 in Dallas, not far from the main Post Office.
26 year old Donnie Farrell of Dallas, was booked into the Dallas County jail just after 3:00am on a charge of murder.
“While our family of federal employees is saddened by the tragic loss of one of our own, I am proud of the cooperative effort by our federal and local law enforcement partners to solve this heinous crime, especially the United States Postal Inspection Service and the Dallas Police Department,” said U.S. Attorney Nealy Cox. “With this arrest, we take a crucial step towards ensuring that the person allegedly responsible for this senseless murder is brought to justice.”
According to the affidavit filed with the criminal complaint, on February 19, 2018, shortly after 2:00 a.m., an United States Postal Service (“USPS”) employee left the Dallas Main Post Office in a USPS box truck. Minutes later, at least three gunshots were fired at the USPS employee and his truck. One of the shots fatally struck him in his head.
“On behalf of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, I would like to extend our deepest sympathy to the Mosby family for the tragic loss of their loved one,” said Thomas Noyes, Inspector in Charge of the Fort Worth Division, U.S Postal Inspection Service. “The cooperation among federal and local law enforcement agencies in this matter is a prime example of how we work best when we work together. I would like to thank the dedicated Postal Inspectors and staff as well as the Dallas Police Department, our federal partners, and U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox and her staff for their dedication and partnership in seeing this case brought to prosecution.”
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, on the morning of February 21, two individuals visited the FBI’s office in Fort Worth, and stated that they had information related to the killing. According to interviews of the two people, on the night of February 18, they met two other individuals, including Ferrell, at a restaurant in Dallas, Texas. Later that night, after several stops, all four of these individuals left a pool hall in Dallas at approximately 1:30 a.m. in the early morning of February 19, 2018. Ferrell was sitting in the front passenger seat of the vehicle. According to additional information provided during the interview, the driver of the vehicle began driving erratically and, at one point, was right behind a large USPS truck. The driver attempted to drive the vehicle around the USPS truck by passing it on the truck’s left hand side. Moments later, Ferrell fired several shots from a handgun in the direction of the USPS truck. The occupants of the vehicle observed smoke and sparks coming from the truck and the truck eventually crashing into the barrier. One of the occupants asked Ferrell why he had shot the gun toward the truck and Ferrell responded that the driver of the USPS truck had made a hand gesture towards their vehicle and that angered him.
Ferrell is likely to face federal charges.
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