Dustin Jackson was shot and killed after a
robbery on Livonia Ave. and Vermont St.
in Brooklyn early Saturday morning.
A 37-year-old MTA employee described as a "teddy bear" was fatally shot a half hour after being robbed by the gunmen in Brooklyn early Saturday, officials and family members said.
Dustin Jackson, a subway platform cleaner who recently became a father, was leaving an after-hours Jamaican club on Vermont and Livonia Aves. in East New York about 2 a.m. when a gunman robbed him and a handful of friends of their jewelry, cash and cellphones, family members were told.
Brother of shooting victim Dustin Jackson (wearing a black t-shirt) said that his brother was ‘a good kid.’
Jackson was out celebrating his first Friday off from work in more than a year, relatives said.
One of the gun-toting crooks returned a half hour later and opened fire into the crowd at the club, Jackson’s relatives said.
A bullet pierced Jackson’s arm and lodged in his chest, his family said. He later died at Brookdale University Hospital.
Jackson and a group of friends were robbed outside a Jamaican club, and a half hour later the suspect returned firing at the crowd.
Police could not immediately confirm that Jackson was robbed and have not revealed a motive in the slaying.
Jackson’s family was devastated by his death.
“You already robbed these kids, why would you come back and shoot him?" asked Jackson’s uncle, Julius Carter, 65. “It's senseless.”
“He's a good kid,” said Dexter Wharton, 50, Jackson’s brother. “He didn't get into trouble. Sometimes trouble finds you."
Jackson was shot and killed on Livonia Ave. at Vermont St. in Brooklyn early in the morning on Saturday.
Jackson's aunt Nelida Lewis identified her nephew’s body at the hospital.
"I thought he was sleeping,” she said. “I touched him on the cheek.”
Between Monday and midnight Friday, 25 people had been shot in the city, a number on par with the same week in 2014, officials said.
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