New York Post

MTA ma shot & killed in B’klyn

- Tina Moore and Natalie Musumeci

An off-duty MTA conductor with six kids was gunned down on a Brooklyn street Monday night as she walked home less than an hour after her shift, police said.

Jacqueline Dicks, 41, was still in uniform when she was killed around 11:40 p.m. on Elton Street near Cozine Avenue in East New York — just steps away from her home, according to cops.

Dicks (top) was shot once in the head at point-blank range, but none of her property was taken, police said.

Her boyfriend, whose name was not released, had dropped her off on the block shortly before the shooting, according to lawenforce­ment sources.

The boyfriend told cops he parked the car and walked to a nearby bodega as Dicks walked home in the opposite direction, sources said. Authoritie­s did not say if he was a suspect.

Dicks, who was hired by the MTA in June, worked the 3 p.m.-11 p.m. shift on Monday and clocked out at the Astoria-Ditmars Boulevard station on the N line in Queens before she was killed, officials said.

Dicks’ devastated brother, Tyrone Dicks, called the slaying “personal.”

“I’m still trying to figure out where this came from because it wasn’t a robbery — it was personal,” he said, referring to his sister, a grandmothe­r of three and mother of six aged 4 to 24, as the “backbone” of their family.

“Whoever it is, now you know, you deserve to be caught,” he said.

Dicks’ niece, Michelle Dicks, said, “I can’t believe this. She was good. She’s always been a great aunt, a good mother.”

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