Woman sentenced for 'execution' of friend on sidewalk
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A still image capturing the shooting death of Delia Johnson (NYPD).

Delia Berry, the mother of murder victim Delia Johnson, 42, used to consider the woman who killed her daughter as one of her own children.

“I did the best that I could for Claudia,” Berry lamented in court on Monday to Claudia Banton, 46, as reported by local news channel News 12 Brooklyn.

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Prosecutors in Brooklyn, New York, claim that it was Banton who wore a blonde wig and black clothes while ambushing Johnson at a candlelight vigil after a funeral, which was in memory of a mutual friend, on August 4, 2021.

At the time, Johnson was talking to others in the crowd. The NYPD released a video showing Banton walking calmly up to the victim, shooting her point-blank in the head, and continuing to fire even as she lay dying on the sidewalk. The shooter then fled in a nearby double-parked car, but investigators later located her in Jacksonville, Florida, where U.S. Marshals apprehended her on November 8, 2021.

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