youngster talking too loud<\/a> into his cell phone, police and sources said.<\/p>\nPettigrew died after being rushed to a local hospital \u2014 without ever seeing his beloved little daughter again.<\/p>\n
Jonathan Pettigrew, 41, was headed to pick his daughter up from daycare when a youth shot him on a Bronx bus, his family said. Facebook<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s too young to understand,\u201d said a bereft Avery Pettigrew. \u201cWhen she gets the mind to start asking for her father, we\u2019re going to have to try to make her understand.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s really her daddy\u2019s little girl.\u201d<\/p>\n
The shooter ran off, heading south on White Plains Road in Parkchester toting a black handgun, cops and sources said. He remained on the loose Thursday.<\/p>\n
The shooter \u2014 believed to be between 13 and 16 years old \u2014 remains on the loose. Peter Gerber<\/p>\n
The slaying ripped Pettigrew from his daughter and his tightknit family just as he started to turn a corner in his life, Avery Pettigrew said.<\/p>\n
The devoted dad had scored a job that helped get himself and his daughter out of a shelter, his brother said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe just got his apartment, just got out of the shelter and\u2026 he got his daughter,\u201d Avery Pettigrew said.<\/p>\n
Pettigrew leaves behind a large family, including his mother and brother, Avery Pettigrew. Obtained by the NY Post<\/p>\n
The quick-witted Jonathan Pettigrew often had friends and family in stitches, always worked hard and never missed a chance to spend time with his mother and siblings, his brother said. A sports fan, he was rooting for the Knicks to break their decades-long NBA championship drought, according to his sibling.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy brother was not a street person. He was a good kid. He was never a gangbanged \u2014 none of that,\u201d Avery Pettigrew said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m very, very, very angry right now. Right now, I\u2019m trying to be calm because I have to worry about my mother. She is very sick. My mother just had a stroke. I gotta go over there and comfort her before she ends up catching another one. She\u2019s taking it very hard \u2014 all my family is taking it very hard.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pettigrew\u2019s brother said he should have been safe on the bus. Peter Gerber<\/p>\n
The devastated brother said he wasn\u2019t surprised that Jonathan confronted the rude youth.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe all were raised like that. In our time we would put the kids in their place if they did wrong,\u201d he said. \u201cMy brother is gonna let people know right from wrong: \u2018Yo, can you bring it down a little bit?\u2019 The kid probably took it the wrong way and shot my brother.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was just around the wrong people at the wrong time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Avery Pettigrew plans to sue the city over his brother\u2019s death, arguing he should have been safe on an MTA bus. But most of all, he said he wants the young shooter to be found.<\/p>\n
\u201cI need justice for my brother,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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