SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO)– The bro of late NFL celebrity transformed Military Ranger Rub Tillman was apprehended after purportedly collapsing right into a San Jose article workplace and ignited on Sunday, according to USA Post Office.
The suspect has actually been determined as Richard Tillman, 44, the more youthful bro of Rub Tillman.
This is a picture of Richard Tillman consulting with ABC7 in 2015 included in a tale from Sunday, July 20, 2025.
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It occurred at the Almaden Valley Article Workplace on Crown Blvd around 3 a.m.
” I got up at 2:50 (a.m.) to surge audios, I watched out my home window, the article workplace got on fire,” claimed Heather Roberts.
Roberts enjoyed as the Almaden Valley Message workplace appeared in fires.
” When we went outside, there was a guy standing in the parking area with a great deal of his valuables,” claimed Roberts.
united state Postal examiners claim a suspicious collapsed his vehicle right into the article workplace, the automobile igniting creating the whole structure to increase in fires, it took loads of San Jose firemens to obtain the blaze controlled.
” Postal examiners are examining as a deliberate act, it will certainly be figured out in a law court if it was yet it does not look like a crash thus far,” claimed Postal Assessor, Matthew Norfleet.
Postal examiners validate San Jose cops apprehended Richard Tillman, reserving him right into the Santa Clara Region Prison.
Tillman is the bro of San Jose indigenous and NFL celebrity Rub Tillman, that picked to offer his nation in Afghanistan as a Military ranger. Tillman was eliminated by pleasant fire in 2004.
Rub Tillman’s image might be seen in a box left on the pathway outside the accident website.
It’s thought Richard Tillman might have additionally identified the front of the article workplace structure with a graffiti message, ‘viva la me.’
” I have actually seen the graffiti; it had not been there the other day, our company believe the individual whose vehicle that is placed it there, the significance is not understood to us,” Norfleet included.
” It’s really unfortunate a person would certainly do this this is our community article workplace,” claimed Rosie MacFarlane.
” This occurred in our community, it influences every one of our loved ones in the location, I rejoice nobody remained in the structure at the time,” claimed Alisha Morcate.
When It Comes To all the mail inside.
” At this moment we’re thinking that all the mail that remained in the structure is melted up, gone. Unrecoverable,” claimed Norfleet.
It’s unidentified how much time the article workplace will certainly be shut for fixings.
In the meanwhile, on Tuesday, July 22, 2025, mail pick-up for PO Box consumers and notice-left mail for consumers usually offered by the Almaden terminal will certainly be offered at the complying with place:
Willow Glen Article Workplace, 1750 Meridian Ave., San Jose, CA.
It’s open Monday – Saturday from 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Customers are advised to offer image ID for all mail pick-up.
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