Horror video shows tragic NYC mom bleeding out from eyes — as killer escapes unsuspecting cops

The graphic footage depicted a chaotic scene with people screaming as Johnson laid face-up, gasping for air while blood streamed out of her eyes.

“She’s got a pulse! Stay with us!” a cop yelled as another officer performed chest compressions on Johnson.

Ten cops happened to be right near the scene of the shooting and arrived within moments, providing the excruciating footage.

Officers even allegedly stopped Banton in her white Mercedes SUV afterward but then let her go — as some witnesses had thrown the cops off the trail by claiming the assailant was a man.

“We spoke to her for a second,” NYPD Detective William Woodly testified Monday as body-cam footage from the stop was shown in court. “We were looking for a male with a white shirt, blue jeans. … We left and continued the search for the shooter.”

Woodly told jurors he would later discover that “the woman we stopped, she shot the victim.”

It would take authorities three months before they would catch up to her again.

A woman in the courtroom who only gave her first name, Anita, and said she was the best friend of Johnson’s mother, wept during the disturbing video showing the victim’s final moments.

Anita — who Johnson called “Auntie” — told reporters she was relieved that Johnson’s mom, Delia Barry, wasn’t in court to see the harrowing footage of her eldest daughter slowing dying.

“I couldn’t even watch after a few moments, I had to look away,” Anita said. “The fact that she was taken away like this, it’s just too much for her [mother] mentally, physically — it’s taking a huge toll.”

Anita explained that the mom would be in court when she could and Anita would continue to attend the whole trial.

Banton, 46 — who also used the aliases Claudia Williams and Keisha Brown — is on trial for second-degree murder for gunning down Johnson, shooting her from behind before going on the run for three months, Brooklyn prosecutor Michael Diamond said during his opening statements.

No motive has yet been made public in the murder.

Diamond detailed how after the killing, Banton “slipped through” the fingers of the police, hightailing it to Georgia the day of the murder and staying on the lam for three months before she was finally caught.

“She slipped through their fingers,” Diamond said. “The defendant is quite good at changing everything about herself.”

Banton of Allenwood, Ga., was finally tracked down by US Marshals in Jacksonville, Fla., on Nov. 8, 2021, but she had changed the color of her hair and was “wearing a surgical mask and big sunglasses,” the prosecutor said. The shooter in the video was blond.

Banton — who had known Johnson for decades and was even once considered a family friend — chose “to taint” a friend’s funeral that she and Johnson were both attending when she killed Johnson as she was chatting with acquaintances, Diamond said.

“The defendant will walk up with her hand behind her back,” Diamond said, giving the jury a preview of disturbing surveillance footage of the cold-blooded killing.

“This defendant puts the gun behind Delia’s head and shoots,” the prosecutor said. “She steps over Delia and shoots her again and again.

“And she walks away, not runs, she walks away,” Diamond said of Banton. “She seems to be in total control.”

Banton’s lawyer, Jonathan Strauss, told the jury his client was innocent and focused on the fact that investigators have yet to provide a motive for the killing.

He said Banton was simply misidentified as the suspect in the surveillance video by two people who hadn’t seen her since they were little girls and who were not present for the killing.

“It’s not my client,” Strauss said of the shooter in the video. “It’s not Claudia Banton.”

Banton faces up to 25 years to life in prison if convicted on the top count.