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Police at the scene where four people were shot in the Bronx late Friday.
Police at the scene where four people were shot in the Bronx late Friday.Christopher Sadowski
Christopher Sadowski
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Police at the scene where four people were shot in the Bronx late Friday.
Christopher Sadowski
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A college student was slain when bullets rang out in a Bronx park.

The victim was identified Saturday as Tyana Johnson, 19, whom a relative described as a “clever teenager.”

Johnson was with four other kids in Shoelace Park late Friday night, including two boys, ages 15 and 16, and a man, 24, when two men leapt out of a car and started shooting at the group.

Someone called 911, bringing police to the park, where they found the 15-year-old boy shot in the buttocks, the 16-year-old with a bullet wound to his ankle, and the man shot in the groin, the NYPD said Saturday.

Johnson, who was struck multiple times, was pronounced dead at Jacobi Hospital.

Police sources identified the 24-year-old as Manny Brown.

The doomed Johnson was standing next to Brown during the shooting, the sources said, adding she was hit in the head, torso, hip and buttocks.

The two shooters fled in a silver BMW, the source said. The motive is unknown, but police said the deadly incident may be gang-related.

Johnson attended Monroe College, the relative said. Her mom used to live in the area, but had moved away.

“I am just trying to hold on. Every time I speak of Tyana I get tears in my eyes,” the relative added, calling the shooting “shocking.”

As for Tyana’s mom? “She’s trying to hold on,” the relative said.

Additional reporting by Sara Dorn and Dean Balsamini

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