Hackensack NJ, Zire King, the man accused of murdering his MTA worker girlfriend, was found dead Friday evening inside the Bergen County home he had barricaded himself during a police standoff.
King was accused of killing Jacqueline Dicks, 41, on May 1 , shooting her while she was walking home from her job as an MTA conductor in East New York.
Detectives from the NYPD as well as Hackensack Police responded to 388 First St. at 1:20 p.m. in search of King.
Police were told King had barricaded inside a closet and was possibly armed in a second-floor bedroom. Bergen County SWAT was brought in to assist.
Effortswere made to negotiate with King to get him to give up peacefully. At 5:45 p.m, with no contact established with King, authorities deployed tear gas into the home. At 6:45, the SWAT members entered the home, still not having heard from King, where they found him dead in a second-floor closet.
Police said he died of unknown injuries. The Bergen County Medical Examiner’s office is conducting an autopsy.