Man tossed from moving car dies, told family he was in danger

(NY DAILY) – On the last day of his life, Tevin Murrell dialed his mother, his sister and his niece to deliver the same ominous message: Keep your doors closed.

He never had a chance to explain why.

The 26-year-old Brooklyn man was tossed from a moving car after making the Aug. 17 calls and died two days later from massive trauma to his head and body. Investigators were unsure at first what happened on a Queens street, but Murrell’s gruesome death has finally been deemed a homicide, cops said Tuesday.

“He called me on the phone … and said, ‘Mom, you’re not going to see me for a little time,’” his distraught mother Cavell Murrell, 61, told the Daily News Tuesday. “I said, ‘Where are you going?’ He said, ‘Close the door, keep the door closed.’