Updated: Jun 30, 2021
top of page
Search
Delia Johnson, 42, was killed Thursday when a woman calmly walked up to her and shot her in the head and torso several times on Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights on Wednesday.
https://twitter.com/MylesMill/status/1423644882879582210 https://twitter.com/MylesMill/status/1423715587411353601 “She was a beautiful person,” Mathis Johnson said of his sister. “She didn’t necessarily have the world to give, but she would give it. She was an amazing woman. Everybody says positive things when people pass, but everything I said about her was 100 percent true.” A longer version of the video, which has not been released, shows the shooter in the area for a long period of time as people hung out on the sidewalk and near the stoops, according to the source. At one point, a man appears to hand the suspect something, which she conceals behind her back before the shooting.
Johnson’s brother, Mathis Johnson, told the Daily News that the attacker may have followed his sister from the funeral of another neighborhood resident earlier in the day.
"She was at a funeral earlier in the evening for an old neighborhood friend to pay her respects, and then this happened," he said. "It was horrible. That lady executed my sister."
Family members said she had a 17-year-old daughter.
Police described the shooter as a dark-skinned adult female, in her mid-20s, with a heavy build and long blonde hair. She was last seen wearing a black long-sleeve shirt, black tights, a silver belt, black and white sneakers and a white purse.
Anyone with information ion the shooter is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
Gun violence has soared in New York and other big cities in the year following the police-involved slaying of George Floyd in Minneapolis, which prompted protests and some violent demonstrations.
Last year, the city saw 468 murders compared to 319 in 2019, police statistics show.
So far in 2021, there were 245 as of Sunday, the most recent data available.
City police statistics also showed more than 1,000 shooting victims in the same timeframe. https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-york-city-crown-heights-assassination
bottom of page