Dustin Jackson, MTA Employee, Reportedly Killed on His First Friday Off in a Year

Four people were shot, and two killed, within a five-hour window in Brooklyn on Friday night.

One of the two who didn’t survive has been identified East New York resident Dustin Jackson, a 37-year-old transit worker.

Jackson has served as a subway station cleaner for MTA since December 2006, says Judie Graves, an MTA spokeswoman.

More specifically, Jackson did heavy cleaning at the Bleecker Street/Broadway-Lafayette station complex in Manhattan’s NoHo neighborhood. ”He basically drives a machine that cleans the floors,” Graves says.

And relatives tell the New York Daily News that at the time he was shot, Jackson ”was out celebrating his first Friday off from work in more than a year.” (MTA could not confirm.)

Jackson, who had recently become a father to a baby girl, was known by friends as “Floss.” In online tributes, they call him a “good guy” and a “beautiful person.”

Police say Jackson was shot dead on the corner or Vermont Avenue and Livonia Avenue in East New York — right beneath the 3 Train overpass — at around 2:30 a.m.

Family members tell the Daily News that half an hour earlier, as Jackson exited a Jamaican club at that intersection, ”a gunman robbed him and a handful of friends of their jewelry, cash and cellphones.”

One of the gun-toting crooks returned a half hour later and opened fire into the crowd at the club, Jackson’s relatives said.

A bullet pierced Jackson’s arm and lodged in his chest, his family said. He later died at Brookdale University Hospital.

No arrests have been made so far in the murder investigation.

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