A TSA agent was gunned down just a couple of blocks away from his home while he was on the phone with his sister on Sunday.
Donovan Davy, who was a veteran TSA employee and worked at JFK Airport for almost 20 years, ran out to get a quick bite to eat in his East Flatbush neighborhood early Sunday morning when a gunman approached him and ended his life. “I got this feeling, like let me just call my brother, because he was taking a little bit too long,” his sister, Poshana Davy, said.
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Sadly, that phone call would end up being the last time she ever spoke to her older brother. “I heard like three to four shots on the phone with him,” she said.
Surveillance video taken from the intersection of East 35th Street and Church Avenue shows two figures gathering at the corner, one figure is seen falling to the ground and then one person runs away from the scene. Another camera shows police arriving afterwards.
“I ran out to where the sirens were and I ran to see my brother get CPR done to him,” his sister said. “He had no reason to be hit cowardly in the back of the neck.”
Police said Davy was shot in the neck and in the leg.
Those close to Davy call him a family-oriented person, and a hard worker. His sister said he was looking forward to reaching his 20th year at his job.
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“Donovan Davy was a longtime valued employee taken from us far too soon in another senseless act of gun violence. He will be missed by his co-workers and the whole TSA family,” John Bambury, TSA’s federal security director for JFK Airport, said.
There have been no arrests announced in Davy’s case. The search continues for the gunman.