{"id":253093,"date":"2026-07-27T18:14:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/253093\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T18:14:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:14:06","slug":"feds-southwest-philadelphia-mail-handler-beats-coworker-with-steel-pipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/253093\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds: Southwest Philadelphia mail handler beats coworker with steel pipe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 A postal worker is facing charges after federal investigators said he beat his co-worker with a 25-pound, nearly 5-foot-long steel pipe.<\/p>\n<p>It happened at the USPS Processing and Distribution Center in Eastwick on July 21.<\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, Steven Louis heard his co-worker was talking behind his back.<\/p>\n<p>The feds said Louis grabbed a safety bar from a piece of mail equipment, confronted his coworker, and hit him \u2014 first in the chest, according to a witness, and then in the head, leaving him seriously hurt.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was knocked off his feet, unconscious and bleeding. He suffered a fractured cheekbone and needed 18 stitches.<\/p>\n<p>Court documents said Louis, who lives in Bustleton, admitted to the attack.<\/p>\n<p>He is charged with assault on a federal officer and could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 A postal worker is facing charges after federal investigators said he beat his co-worker&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11228,31,69,71,70,2653,4495],"class_list":["post-253093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-assault","tag-crime","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-southwest-philadelphia","tag-usps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}