'I listened to my brother die': a man was shot on the street in Brooklyn while he was talking to his sister

A JFK airport security worker was on the phone with his sister when he was gunned down on a Brooklyn street two blocks from his mother's house Sunday night. New York Daily News.

Donovan Davy, 45, was on his way to visit his mother after finishing work. Around 00:20 he was shot in the neck and leg near E. 35 St. and Church Avenue in East Flatbush.

“I heard three shots and started yelling his name into the phone, but he didn’t react at all,” said his sister, who was on the phone with the victim at the time of the incident. "I just can't believe I heard my brother die."

Police believe the shooter approached Davy from behind and fired the fatal shots. The man was heading to his mother's house, where his sister and family were waiting for him.

“The man must have been watching him from afar,” said the sister, who asked not to be named. She recalled that their last conversation with her brother was carefree: “I asked:“ Where are you? ”, And he replied:“ I run fast, fast, like a chicken with a severed head, ”and added that he would be home soon,” said the sister of the deceased.

Hearing the shots, she ran out into the street and saw the ambulance doctors giving Devi artificial respiration.

“I felt like he was trying to fight,” she said.

But that wasn't enough. Medics took Davy to the Kings County Hospital, where he died. No arrests have yet been made in connection with his murder, and the police have not established a motive.

Davy has worked as a transportation security officer at Kennedy Airport for the past 17 years, checking luggage for explosives.

“In a few years, he planned to celebrate 20 years with the TSA,” his sister said. - He had many awards. He was very well known at JFK. He loved his job, it was his passion.”

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Davy's colleagues were shocked by his murder.

“Donovan Davy was a valuable employee who was taken from us too early in yet another senseless act of gun violence,” John Bambery, director of security at TSA at Kennedy Airport, said Sunday. “His colleagues and the entire TSA family will miss him.”

Davy had no criminal record

Police said the deceased had no criminal record. Davy was not one of those who make enemies, the cousin of the murdered man noted.

“He was a cheerful guy. I have never seen him have a claim on anyone,” he said. – If there was a confrontation, he would leave her. The whole family is shocked by what happened.”

Davy was born in Jamaica and immigrated to New York at a young age. He attended Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn.

“My brother is very intelligent. He speaks French, Spanish,” his sister said. “We planned to go to Thailand in January.”