Three years ago, KeAnna Rose Pickett and her family were thriving.

She and her husband, both former student athletes, were raising three young kids and running a successful mail and shipping business in Seattle’s Central District. They were getting ready to open a second location in South Seattle.

Then her husband, D’Vonne Pickett Jr., was gunned down before her eyes in front of their store.

On the anniversary of his death, someone shot out the store’s windows.

Even after she moved from their storefront on the west side of Martin Luther King Jr. Way to a spot around the corner in the same building on East Union Street, the business never recovered.

The Postman — named in honor of D’Vonne Pickett’s great-grandfather, Jacques Chappell, who was a mail carrier in the neighborhood for 37 y

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