Mobility van driver fatally gunned down while working in Baltimore

The suspect, who has not been recognized by police, fled the world in a tan or beige-colored Ford Crown Victoria or a Lincoln Grand Marquee. The man’s motive was unclear.

Police haven’t launched the identify of the MTA driver, however a union official recognized him as Frankye Duckett, who lived along with his household in Pennsylvania however traveled to Baltimore to work day by day. Duckett was answerable for driving sufferers and folks with disabilities to and from physician’s appointments, kidney dialysis and different important companies, stated the union official, Mark Garey, a enterprise agent for the Teamsters Local 355.

“Everybody’s saddened to hear the news,” Garey stated. “You go to work to feed your family and you’ve got to worry about things like this happening…it is tragic.”

The killing marked the second deadly taking pictures of an MTA driver in Baltimore in current months. MTA bus driver Marcus Parks was fatally shot in Southeast Baltimore in October after an argument with a person making an attempt to board his bus. Following Parks’s demise, the native bus drivers’ union demanded extra safety for its members, the Baltimore Sun reported.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan launched an announcement in a tweet late Friday concerning the mobility van driver’s killing.

“This is the second time in a matter of months an MTA driver has been killed while serving the community,” Hogan stated in the tweet. “He was helping some of our most vulnerable citizens. It is absolutely senseless, and we will not tolerate this violence. Please keep his family in your prayers tonight.”

In a statement, Kevin Quinn, administrator of the Maryland Department of Transportation Maryland Transit Administration, additionally condemned the violence towards service operators.

“We are deeply saddened by another tragic loss this evening as one of our First Transit Mobility service operators was killed on the job,” Quinn stated in the assertion. “The safety of our employees and our riders is MDOT MTA’s highest priority. Violence against transit operators needs to stop immediately.”

“MDOT MTA is grateful for our operators’ dedication in transporting essential workers to critical jobs and, in this case, transporting our most vulnerable customers to essential services during the pandemic each and every day,” the assertion continued. “Our thoughts and prayers are with his family in this most difficult time.”