A relative of an innocent elderly woman who was struck by a stray bullet in Brooklyn on Monday afternoon slammed the city as an “out of control” haven for career criminals.

Marilyn Hunte, 70, was shot in the thigh in Bedford-Stuyvesant just after 2:15 p.m. when two men got into a fight nearby and opened fire, cops said.

Hunte was on her way to Food Town supermarket when she was struck by a bullet, her cousin, Laurice Johnson, told The Post.

“You hope for the best, but things have gotten really out of control in the city,” Johnson, also 70, said Monday night outside of Hunte’s Bed-Stuy home.

Johnson said courts need to lock up career criminals and repeat offenders.

“How do they keep letting people go? That’s the definition of crazy to expect a different result,” said Johnson.

The longtime New Yorker said shootings have been a common occurrence since she was a child but recent violence rocking the city has surged to insanity.

“Shootings happen all the time in this area,” Johnson said. “Some police were once shot right in front of this door.”

She called on the city to take action.

“You can’t keep [people] running around here shooting people with rap sheets with 20, 50 [arrests],” she said. “They never learn, so something else needs to be done.”

She said she was shocked that her cousin was the latest victim.

Hunte was taken to Kings County Hospital Center for treatment and is expected to survive, police said.

Johnson was on her way to the hospital to check on her when The Post caught up to her.

The shooter took off, and no arrests have been made.