This is a terrible way to find out your daughter was an exotic dancer.
It is dangerous out there for everyone, including strippers.
Please be safe out there.
The family of an exotic dancer who was gunned down in Gramercy Park this week is in shock over the execution-style slaying — and just learning the truth of her troubled life since she fled to New York.
The masked gunman who blasted 25-year-old Imani Armstrong as she left her other job at an IHOP on Thursday morning needs to be arrested and prosecuted, grieving aunt Chanda Armstrong-Headen told The Post on Friday.
“To whoever did this, all I can say is God have mercy on your soul,” Armstrong-Headen said in a phone interview from Virginia. “The thing is we are hurt but we do have to forgive. Hurt people hurt people so this person is hurt.
“The one that is gonna judge them is God and when God judges you, it’s the worse judgment,” she added. “God said vengeance is mine so I’ll leave it up to God.”
Armstrong had moved to the Big Apple from Virginia about three years ago to be with a woman who later became her wife, then kept communication with her disapproving family to a minimum, according to her aunt.
When her kin heard that Armstrong had been fatally shot by a masked gunman, they also learned she had been dancing and spent months in a shelter for domestic-abuse victims.
Armstrong had finished her overnight shift at IHOP at around 5 a.m. on Thursday and was on her way to the 14th Street subway when she was shot near Union Square, cops and sources said. Surveillance footage obtained by cops showed that the shooter was waiting for Armstrong across the street as she walked out of the restaurant, sources said.
The assailant is seen in the footage following Armstrong before running up behind her and firing a shot, according to the sources. The suspect, who is still at large, then ran northbound on Irving Place, the sources added.
It looked like a planned hit, so she was obviously in deep with some bad people.
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