The stray bullet that left an 11-year-old Brooklyn girl paralyzed also likely killed her great-grandmother — who died from heartache over the shooting, grieving relatives said yesterday.
“She watched the news and saw what happened to her great-granddaughter,” said Robert Mazyck, whose innocent daughter, Tayloni, was shot by a suspected gang member outside their Bed-Stuy home Friday.
Mazyck said his 85-year-old grandma, Lucille — after whom Tayloni Lucille is named — couldn’t bear the pain of what happened.
“It was too much for her,” Mazyck said. “So now I have to deal with a funeral for my grandmother and my youngest daughter being paralyzed.”
Tayloni’s mother, Priscilla, said their daughter “knows something is wrong” and is asking from her hospital bed, “Where’s my granny?”
“They’re connected . . . She feels it. She asked me, ‘Did she die?’ I’m like, ‘What are you talking about?’
“I told her she’s sick. I don’t want to tell her,” the mom said.
Tayloni was shot standing at the front door of her family’s home. The bullet traveled down her throat and lodged in her spine, leaving her unable to move.
“Everything is just swollen. They can’t do anything until the swelling goes down. But they’re also saying the bullet is in a place . . . they don’t want to go to . . . because there’s too many nerves,” the mom said.
Priscilla Mazyck said she plans to bring the PS 44 fifth-grader’s graduation cap and gown to the hospital for a makeshift ceremony on what would have been her graduation day.
“It might not be with her teachers and stuff, but it will be with us,’’ the mom said, adding she’ll bring red-velvet cupcakes, too.
“She will get her graduation.”
Robert Mazyck said he was shocked after learning that, according to police, the suspected shooter Kane Cooper, 17, laughed when he was arrested.
“I wanted to tear his head off,” Mazyck said.