Police: Postal Workers Shot Dead in Tennessee

(Oct. 18) -- Two postal service employees were shot dead today in Henning, Tenn., during a possible robbery attempt at their work place, authorities said.

The employees, both women, were found dead this morning in a post office in the small town 50 miles northeast of Memphis.

The Lauderdale County Sheriff's Office told AOL News that police are searching for a maroon Chevrolet Impala with two men inside, and Tennessee Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Kristin Helm told The Associated Press that investigators were being sent to the scene.

Jeff Dew, of the Dennis Dew Termite Co., said his brother, Eric Banks, reported the bodies just after 9 a.m. One Tennessee man, Tony Burns, told the AP that his sister-in-law escaped the Henning post office where she works this morning during a robbery.

Henning, a town of about 1,000, was the hometown of "Roots" author Alex Haley, and blues musician John Henry Barbee.

"I just couldn't believe it, not in this town," resident Emmitt Hennings told the AP of the slayings. "It's too quiet."
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