The father of three shot to death on a Brooklyn subway Sunday night was trying to break up a dispute between his future killer and another person over how loud one of them was playing music, neighbors and police sources told The Post.
Richard Henderson, 45, of Crown Heights, caught two bullets — one in the back and another in the shoulder — on the Manhattan-bound 3 train at about 8:15 p.m., police said.
Authorities got to him at the Franklin Avenue-Medgar Evers College Station in Crown Heights, then rushed him to the Kings County Hospital.
But he could not be saved — Henderson died at about 9:05 p.m., the NYPD said.
Henderson had apparently tried to calm an argument between the two other subway riders over the music’s volume, police sources said.
It’s not clear who started the argument. No arrests have been made.
“Good guy — always the good ones get killed,” one neighbor told The Post, adding that Henderson’s wife was at the hospital and with the medical examiner all night. “They’re a good family, good people. Messed up.”