NYC transit worker, mother of 6, found shot dead in street

NEW YORK -- Police say a New York City transit worker and mother of six has been shot and killed less than a block from her home on a street in Brooklyn.

The NYPD says officers found 41-year-old Jacqueline Dicks unresponsive after responding to a 911 call around 11:40 p.m. Monday.

Emergency crews arrived and pronounced her dead at the scene.

The Daily News reports that Dicks was an off-duty Metropolitan Transportation Authority worker and was wearing her uniform at the time of her death. The subway conductor was returning home from work at a nearby subway depot when she was shot in the head, reports CBS New York.

"A part of the community is lost. A part of the city is lost," Benjamin Welcome of the Transit Workers Union told reporters.

The NYPD is searching for the victim's boyfriend, 44-year-old Zire King, for questioning, reports CBS New York.

NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said surveillance video doesn't match King's account of three suspects who fired at Dicks and fled in a car. Police found a .40 caliber handgun in the trunk of King's car believed to be the murder weapon, Boyce said.

Nothing was stolen from Dicks, police say.

Boyce said said the couple had been together for five years, had recently bought a home and had a child together.

An MTA spokesperson declined to comment.

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