The widow of a grandfather killed on a Brooklyn train a year ago said Gov. Kathy Hochul’s security plan would not have stopped her husband’s brutal killer — and that she hasn’t set foot on the rails since his unsolved murder put.
“It’s a good start from 9 to 5,” a grieving Jakeba Dockery, 43, told The Post of Hochul’s initiative to increase police patrols in the subway from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m.
“[But] that wouldn’t have helped at all, because my husband had already been murdered before [9 p.m.]. 24 hours would be a good gesture, that would be even better.”
Dockery’s husband, beloved school security guard Richard Henderson, 45, was shot dead when he broke up a fight over loud music aboard a Brooklyn 3 train on Jan. 14, 2024 — exactly a year before Hochul revealed the plan during her “State of the State” speech Tuesday in Albany.
Henderson – who shared three children and two grandchildren with Dockery – was the first metro murder of 2024, with nine more to follow.
“It’s sad that my husband is one of those 10 people, it breaks my heart even more,” Dockery said Wednesday. “It’s just sad.”
“Everyone is walking around in an angry mood and that is not good anymore since my husband was murdered,” she added about the violence in the subway.
“It’s gotten worse.”
The family marked the grim one-year anniversary by releasing balloons outside their Crown Heights home on Tuesday.
Since Hendeson’s murder, Dockery has refused to ride the train.
“MTA was my best friend. I loved the MTA. I really did,” Dockery said.
“Everyone just seems mad at the MTA right now.”
She started the nonprofit during her year of mourning Richards Road – an ode to her husband’s passion for helping children – as she waits for the police to catch his killer.
She is offering a $10,000 reward for the whereabouts of Henderson’s killer.
“It makes me angry that the killer has been walking around all year without a single clue.”
Dockery also urged Big Apple leaders to increase patrols on the train where her husband was killed.
“If they put more emphasis on Line 3 and just the East New York region, that would be a good start,” she said.
“I hope it makes a difference.”
