UPS driver killed while on food stop; suspect surrenders

ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) - A UPS driver who had stopped for something to eat was shot and killed early Thursday in a Wal-Mart parking lot by a motorist who then ran over him and later surrendered to authorities after an hourslong standoff at a nearby home, police and company officials said.

Ithaca police said driver William Schumacher, 52, was shot around 12:50 a.m. outside a 24-hour superstore in the city in upstate New York. Thirty-eight-year-old Justin Barkley surrendered about nine hours later, and police said they were still trying to determine a motive for the shooting.

Both men lived near Ithaca in central New York - Schumacher in Candor and Barkley in Dryden. Police said they did not know each other and had no prior interaction with one another.

Barkley was charged with second-degree murder and sent to jail without bail.

Susan Rosenberg, a spokeswoman for the Atlanta-based package delivery company, said the driver was a seasonal employee who had stopped to get something to eat during his overnight shift. She said he was about four weeks into his second stint as a seasonal driver of a tractor-trailer hauling packages between UPS
processing hubs.