The mother of the 20-year-old woman executed at point-blank range as she pushed her 3-month-old child in a stroller on Manhattan's Upper East Side Wednesday night described her daughter as a 'young queen' whose city failed to protect her.
"She worked to the end of her pregnancy. She was on maternity leave with this baby. He kept harassing her, and threatening my life and my younger daughter's life," Desort said, adding that she genuinely was in fear for Johnson's safety.
"I tried to protect my daughter in every way. She had to leave my house, she couldn't live there because he knew where I lived," Desort said."I kept telling her, 'He's no good.'" That baby is the 3-month-old who was in the stroller when Johnson was shot in the head by Lexington Avenue and East 95th Street around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday. She was found unconscious at the scene and pronounced dead a short time later. The baby wasn't hurt. Desort says her daughter has another, older child, by a different man, too.
"My daughter graduated high school with merits, with the inspiration of becoming a pediatric nurse," Desort said, reflecting on Johnson's upbringing in Brownsville, Brooklyn.
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