People will see this story, which is your story.” The film looks at how post office massacres dating back to 1986 presaged a trend in workplace violence that spread and continues to the present day. “This film is going to be seen across the world.
The Royal Oak shootings and on-camera interviews with Withers are the backbone of the documentary by Los Angeles-based filmmaker Emil Chiaberi, who wrote, directed and co-produced “Murder by Proxy.” “No one has inspired me more than Charlie (Withers),” Chiaberi told the postal workers before the film rolled. 22-caliber rifle, killing four people and wounding four others before killing himself with the same gun. 14, 1991, fired letter carrier Tom McIlvane shot 100 rounds from a. “Everybody knew something was going to happen.” On Nov. “It was like a nightmare really,” recalled Charlie Withers, a union steward and carrier who was inside the Royal Oak Post Office the day of the shootings and still works there. Nearly 300 postal workers from around the region turned out to see the first public showing of the documentary “Murder by Proxy: How America Went Postal” at the Main Art Theater in Royal Oak on Thursday. ROYAL OAK - A new documentary on American mass murders illuminates the dark lessons of the Royal Oak Post Office shootings 19 years ago and explores the evolution of workplace massacres in the years since.