Murdered MTA Worker's Boyfriend And Suspected Killer Found Dead In New Jersey, Police Say

EAST NEW YORK — The man police believe murdered his MTA conductor girlfriend was found dead Friday evening after a standoff with a SWAT team in New Jersey, police said.

Zire King, 44, was found dead in a Hackensack apartment at 388 First St., around 7:15 p.m. Friday, just four days after MTA worker Jacqueline Dicks, 41, was shot in the head, police said.

Police said King had been hiding out in the apartment until a SWAT team surrounded the building, but released no further detail about King’s death.

Dicks, a mother of six children and conductor on the N line, was fatally shot outside 1010 Elton Street in East New York around 11:40 p.m. on May 1.

King had given her a ride home from work, and originally told police he and his girlfriend had parted ways outside his car, police said.

Dick’s family congregated on the street corner one day later to celebrate her memory and condemn her killer — whom they contended was someone Dicks knew.

Police identified King as their primary suspect on Wednesday, after it became clear he had lied about seeing three men running away from her collapsed body moments after her death.