Cancer-stricken Brooklyn mom’s dying wish for son’s brutal murder to finally be solved: ‘Still trying to get justice’ (EXCLUSIVE)

The Stage 4 cancer that led to Allison Shinn’s hospice care is only the second-worst thing that’s happened in her life.

The worst thing happened nearly four years before the dreaded diagnosis — when Shinn learned her 24-year-old son, Amani Miller, had been murdered in a violence-plagued Brooklyn NYCHA complex. An autopsy report revealed her son died from three gunshot wounds to the head, was beaten and suffered more than 50 stab wounds.

And while Shinn, 47, has found peace in a life that is being measured now in weeks, her dying wish is for her son’s killer to finally be caught.

“Now that I’m on hospice, I’m not on chemotherapy so I’m strong enough to deal with this,” said Shinn, who has been given just months to live. “We’re still trying to get justice for Amani.”

Doctors can’t confirm it, but Shinn and her husband, David Shinn, are convinced her cancer is connected to the stress she endured over her son’s death — not just the grisly details but the fact that more than six years later, his killer remains on the street.

“All of this pain and anger and frustration has manifested itself into a cancer in my wife’s body,” David Shinn said. “It was the stress obviously of the brutality of the murder ... and then not to have any resolution.”

Miller was slain March 13, 2016, in the fifth-floor hallway of the troubled Bay View Houses apartment complex in Canarsie. He was left for dead after being beaten, stabbed and shot in the head.

Police and the family said they believe Miller was targeted because he and a rival were dating the same woman. Family members said they think Miller was lured to the building to be killed there.

Sources said detectives have a potential suspect but lack the evidence to make a case against him yet. Police said that there may have been several witnesses who saw Miller with the killer, but no one has come forward.

“This case remains an active investigation by the Brooklyn South homicide squad working with the Kings County DA’s office,” said Deputy Chief Kevin Maloney, an NYPD spokesman. “Detectives are still working to establish probable cause and bring the offender to justice.”

Allison Shinn and the rest of the family knew something was wrong when Miller didn’t show up that day for the construction job he worked with her husband, who is Miller’s stepdad.

“The last words we said were we love each other,” the mother said. “And when he didn’t show up for work I knew something was wrong.”

That night she called 911 and the next day she called several NYPD precincts and filled out a missing persons report. She gave police the license plate number of the company car that Miller had been driving, which was located quickly.

“There was a body found in the hallway,” said David Shinn. “They didn’t know that it was Amani. He had left his ID in the car.”

Complicating the investigation was DNA found under Miller’s fingernails. Allison Shinn said investigators told her it did not match the DNA of their lead suspect. Cops last week declined to discuss the DNA, citing the ongoing investigation.

Authorities have offered a $12,500 reward for information, but the family says it isn’t enough.

“Things start getting cold, so they go from hot to lukewarm to cold to frozen, and that’s all equated with time,” said David Shinn. “And now, time is even more critical because my wife might not be here. So now I’m really pushing forward even harder to find out what’s going on.”

For 13 years, it was just mother and son, until Allison married David Shinn and they blended their families.

“Amani was my pride and joy, a great overall son,” said his mother. “He was the light of the family. He was into music, he loved music. He was a model for many years.”

Allison Shinn said that Miller began modeling as a toddler but gave it up when he was 15 to focus on rapping and producing songs. He had been photographed for countless ads, including Gap, The Children’s Place and Versace.

“He was on a 42nd St. billboard,” Shinn said proudly. “He was my world.”

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