GHOULISH DISPLAY
Widow vows MTA suit on gory hub pix
The widow of a man fatally shot on a Brooklyn subway train plans to sue the MTA for allegedly leaking crime-scene photos of her husband — in a move similar to Vanessa Bryant suing over the helicopter-crash photos of late hubby Kobe Bryant and their daughter.
Jakeba Dockery, 42, filed a $28.5 million notice of claim with the city on Friday, accusing MTA workers of snapping pictures of husband Richard Henderson, 45, lying in a pool of his own blood on a Manhattan-bound No. 3 train before the beloved school crossing guard and grandfather was declared dead at the hospital later that day, Jan. 14.
“It makes my heart drop,” Dockery told The Post of seeing the photos of her mortally wounded spouse. “I can’t believe my husband is gone. To see him in his own blood, it hurts me.”
Henderson, a Crown Heights man who shared three children and two grandchildren with Dockery, tragically died trying to break up a fight over loud music between his killer, who is still on the loose, and another man before he was shot in the back and shoulder.
Dockery found out from a friend that the photos “were publicly being disseminated on social media and the like,” according to the notice of claim — the legal precursor to suing a municipal agency.
A 10-year Metropolitan Transportation Authority employee allegedly shared with the friend the pictures, which the worker had been sent by another MTA colleague, the notice alleges.
Dockery plans to sue the transit agency for $28.5 million — the same amount Vanessa Bryant, 41, was awarded in 2023 after photos of the January 2020 helicopter crash that killed her NBA legend husband, Kobe, 41, and their daughter Gianna, 13, were leaked by Los Angeles sheriff and fire department employees.
An MTA employee “took photos of Richard Henderson . . . while he was alive and laying in a pool of his own blood,” Dockery’s notice claims, noting that the photos had no “legitimate governmental purpose.”
‘I was devastated’
Dockery told The Post she was sent one of the graphic photos of Henderson — to whom she was married for 20 years — just a day after he died. She said she also saw the image on someone’s story on Instagram and heard from others that the photo was on another person’s Facebook story as well.
“I was devastated,” said Dockery, who is a case manager for veterans. “He’s a hero, and the image of him on the floor with blood circulating — it was not good for me to see and for my children to see.
“That image is always in my head,” the widow said of her husband, who was a crossing guard for a private school in Chelsea for 10 years on a street that will soon be named after him.
Dockery said their three kids, ages 15, 20, and 25, are all on social media and saw the grim images.
“It was hard to explain their father on the train with his own blood,” the mom said.
Her 20-year-old daughter is forced to take the No. 3 subway to school every day, and “she cries on the train,” Dockery said.
An MTA rep declined to comment on Friday.