The NYPD is investigating after they said an MTA worker was found stabbed to death inside his home in Brooklyn on Tuesday.

Police said the body of Otis James, 46, was found around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday in a home on Central Ave. near Cornelia St. in Bushwick.

"He was a pretty decent guy. He was a good neighbor, can't complain about him," neighbor Joshua Soto said. "He was a family guy."

Relatives said James was wheelchair-bound, paralyzed from the waist-down two years ago after he was robbed and shot in his native Guyana.

On Tuesday, a family friend found his body in the first-floor apartment where James lived with his wife and two of his children. One relative too afraid to be shown on camera said James had been beaten in the head with his own wheelchair and had been stabbed more than ten times.

Police are trying to pin down a motive.

"Still a little preliminary. There are some allegations that there was money in the house," NYPD Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea said Wednesday.

James was a former MTA bus driver. Friends from the Flatbush depot where he worked are stunned by his death.

"Great co-worker, energetic, fun-loving. A guy that's well-loved by the employees of this depot," an employee there said. "He's a guy who could make you laugh."

James's relatives, trying to cope with the loss, poured through his home to see if anything was taken.

While going through his belongings, relatives told us they noticed that James's cellphone had been taken. We are told detectives have collected surveillance video from a nearby home, and have an image of a person they are hoping to track down.

Anyone with information on the case should contact the Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-8477, or text CRIMES and then enter TIP577, or visit www.nypdcrimestoppers.com