What to Know
- Jacqueline Dicks, 41, was shot in the head not far from her Brooklyn home Monday night; she had just wrapped up her MTA conductor shift
- The mother of six was still wearing her uniform when she was found dead on the street; her boyfriend, Zire King was wanted for murder
- King was found dead at a home in Hackensack on Friday; police had questioned and released him before suspecting he was Dicks' killer
The boyfriend suspected of shooting and killing an MTA worker as she was headed home from a shift earlier this week was found dead after a standoff at a house in New Jersey, police said.
A SWAT team found the body of 44-year-old Zire King in the closet of a home on First Street in Hackensack on Friday afternoon, according to police.
Authorities had questioned King at the start of their investigation into the death of his girlfriend, 41-year-old Jacqueline Dicks, but released him.
Detectives later obtained video from the crime scene area that showed King talking to Dicks on the street Monday night shortly before she was shot, then heading to his car after, police said.
Cops obtained a search warrant for King's car and found a handgun in the trunk, police said. Authorities believe that is the weapon that killed Dicks. Dicks' bag and phone were also allegedly found in the vehicle.
Police said King was living with Dicks at her East New York home, but that he had not returned home since he was questioned. Authorities had been searching for him ever since.
The investigation took detectives to First Street in Hackensack on Friday, where a woman at the home said King was barricaded in a bedroom closet on the second floor and possibly armed, police said.
The Bergen County Regional SWAT team was called and a perimeter was set up around the home. Negotiators tried to make contact with King around 5:45 p.m., but were not able to. About an hour later, the SWAT team deployed gas and entered the home, where they found King dead in the upstairs closet.
It’s unclear how King died or if he had a weapon. The Bergen County medical examiner will perform an autopsy to determine the cause of his death.
Dicks was shot in the head Monday night on Elton Street; she had just wrapped up a shift on the N line and investigators said King was driving her home after picking her up from the Astoria-Ditmas Boulevard station.
King told police he dropped Dicks off near her home and was going to the store when he heard a single gunshot, police sources said late Tuesday.
He told police he was blinded by headlights and couldn't see clearly but thought there may have been three people involved, the sources said. Several witnesses also supported the three-people story, but Boyce said Wednesday that theory just wasn't true. He said only one person was responsible.
Dicks was pronounced dead at the scene. She was still wearing her MTA uniform. She had been a conductor with New York City Transit since June.
Boyce said King was living with Dicks for at least three years. The couple has a 4-month-old child. Police did not elaborate on a possible motive for the shooting.
