Johnson was shot in the torso and leg, while the other woman was struck in the knee and the man in the buttocks and arm.
All three were rushed to the hospital, where Johnson succumbed to her injuries.
Johnson has been a school safety agent since June of 2017 and was assigned to JHS 117 in Brooklyn, though she has been out on medical leave since July of 2020.
She was the mother of a 7-year-old boy.
Police say the current investigative theory is that the suspect, who was denied entry into the club because he was armed, is Johnson’s ex-boyfriend and waited for her to emerge.
The suspect is believed to have fled in a white BMW sedan across the RFK Bridge into the Bronx.
No arrests have been made.
She was the mother of a 7-year-old boy.
No arrests have been made.
A woman was killed and two others were hurt Thursday in a triple shooting outside a club in Queens. Police said 27-year-old Mye Johnson, an NYPD school safety agent, died.
The shooting happened around 4 a.m. in Astoria. The scene on Steinway Street near Astoria Boulevard remained blocked by police tape for hours, CBS2’s Leah Mishkin reported
“I heard like five (shots), probably. Like, ‘Pow, pow, pow, pow,’” said Alex Kyriakides.
At first, Kyriakides thought the noise was traffic on the overpass. Later, he learned three people were shot.
“It’s terrible. I mean no one wants to see the loss of life,” he said. “It’s really sad. I hope it’s not a reflection of the neighborhood as a whole.”
According to police, Johnson and two friends, a man and a woman, were out celebrating her birthday when an argument broke out outside the club.
“Multiple persons fired shots and the three victims were struck,” said NYPD Deputy Chief Julie Morrill.
There was no immediate word on what the argument was about. Police were also investigating if the two sides knew each other.
Johnson, who has a 7-year-old son, was pronounced dead at the hospital. Her friends were hospitalized in stable condition.
“Especially troubling since it’s a couple of days before Christmas. We are currently visiting with the family and giving them as much support as we possibly can,” said Deputy Chief Lola Obe.
“Very young, it’s unfortunate. The whole situation is unfortunate,” said Sorel Ramirez, who manages a veterinary clinic near the scene.
Ramirez said he was unable to get into his office Thursday morning because of the investigation.
“Our employees, myself, our clients are safe. Now the next level of that is how we are going to take care of the animals that we have in the hospital. They need to be medically taken care of, they need to be fed,” he said.
Police later let Ramirez enter his clinic to care for the animals.
“It’s on and on and on and on. So it’s scary, no question about that,” Ramirez said. “You wake up in the morning thinking do I go to work, do I take the train, do I get slashed, do I get shot? Do I get pushed into the tracks? It’s just terrible.”
Ramirez, who’s lived in Astoria for 35 years, said he never saw this kind of violence before the COVID pandemic.
“It’s terrible. Of course, these are the times where we live. It’s all this violence, it’s all this anxiety. It’s all this turmoil, and people have no respect for life anymore,” he said.
So far, no arrests have been made.
