Woman who attacked Georgia postal worker pleads guilty in federal court
A woman who was “clearly intoxicated” when she attacked, punched and screamed at a postal worker at a west Macon gas mart in 2019, pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court.
The assault happened that April at an Exxon station, where the women first tussled at the door of the establishment’s restroom.
The postal worker, whose name was not mentioned in court documents, had gone to the store at the intersection of Mercer University Drive and Columbus Road to drop off mail.
The worker asked a store clerk if she could use the restroom and was given a key to unlock it.
When the postal worker emerged, “a clearly intoxicated” 33-year-old woman named Kelly Lynne McCormick was “pacing back and forth” and tried to force her way inside the restroom while the postal worker was locking the door behind her, court documents note.
The two women were said to have “grappled briefly,” according to wording in McCormick’s plea agreement, and that after they separated McCormick “stormed out of the store” and later confronted the postal worker again as the postal worker tried to leave.
McCormick, who pleaded guilty to assault on a federal employee, faces up to eight years in prison and a $250,000 fine when she is sentenced in April. She lives in Charleston, South Carolina, but for a time lived in the Houston County town of Bonaire.
Court documents described her run-in with the postal worker outside the gas mart, which was recorded on surveillance cameras, as an episode in which McCormick “charged at” the other woman, yelled at her and struck her in the head “with a closed fist.” Onlookers separated the pair.
It was not mentioned in the court filing what, save for the intoxication, may have set McCormick off.
This story was originally published January 27, 2021 at 3:58 PM.