A surveillance video shows a woman opening fire in New York City killing another woman in August. The unidentified woman was on the run from the police has been captured in Florida. The woman was shown walking up behind a woman on a Brooklyn street shooting her execution-style over the summer has been arrested in Florida according to FOX News. The woman has been identified as Claudia Banton, 42, was arrested for her role in the Aug. 4 death of Delia Johnson, also 42. At the time of the incident Johnson had just left a friend’s funeral when the shooting happened.
Johnson was shot on Franklin Avenue in the Prospect Heights section of Brooklyn according to the New York Post. The footage showed the shooter casually exiting a double-parked white SUV, crossing a street, and approaching Johnson from behind, pulling out a small pistol and firing the weapon.
Johnson’s body fell to the ground, the suspect fired several more shots before leaving the scene. The 42-year-old mother was taken to Interfaith Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
At the time of the fatal shooting, the two women went to the funeral of an old neighborhood friend. It was believed that Banton may have lured Johnson to her death with a phone call. Johnson’s family explained that the assassin had a personal relationship with them.
“Oh my God, oh my God, she used to stay with us,” Johnson’s mother, Delia Berry, said in August. “She slept in my bed, ate my food.”
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