Donovan Davy, a veteran Transportation Security Administration (TSA) worker at Kennedy Airport in New York, was on the phone with his sister when he was fatally shot on a Brooklyn street.
Davy, aged 45, was on his way to visit his mother and He was shot two blocks before arriving at her house from work early Sunday morning, police and relatives said. His sister was also waiting there, an eyewitness to the crime and who asked that his name not be disclosed.
The bullets hit him in the neck and leg near E. 35 St. and Church Ave. in East Flatbush around 12: 20 Sunday am. “I heard three shots and I was calling his name, but he wasn’t responding at all,” he told the Daily News. his sister, who was on the phone with him at the time. “I just couldn’t believe it. I heard my brother die on the phone”.
“I just couldn’t believe it. I heard my brother die on the phone”
Sister of the victim
Police believe the gunman stood behind him and fired from there. “The person was probably watching him from a distance,” the sister said. Despite the tragedy, their final conversation was joyful, she recalled.
“I was telling him ‘ Where are you?’ and he said: ‘I’m walking fast like a chicken with my head cut off’ and added that he would be here soon”, she recalled.
After hearing the shots, she ran out in time to see the rescuers perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). “It was like he was trying to fight” for a living, the relative said. But it was not enough. Doctors took him to Kings County Hospital, where he died.
“The people who did that to him were malicious,” her sister said. “She was just minding his business.”
Davy had no criminal record, according to the police. He worked for the TSA as a Transportation Security Officer at JFK Airport for the past 17 years, tracking explosives, his family said. “He had numerous awards. He was very well known at JFK. He loved his work, that was his passion”.
“Donovan Davy was a valued employee for a long time who was taken from us too soon in another senseless act of armed violence while he was off duty,” said John Bambury, director of federal security for the TSA on Sunday. JFK airport. “He will be missed by his co-workers and the entire TSA family.”
No arrests have been made and police have not established a motive for Davy’s homicide. Anyone with information should call 1-577-577-TIPS (8477) and in Spanish 1-2022-57-CLUE (74782). Also through crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by text message to 274637 (CRIMES), followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.