A young woman was running for her life when she was fatally shot by a masked assailant who chased her into her Queens apartment, killing her with a gunshot to the head just as she got to her bathroom door, the victim’s mother and police told the Daily News on Sunday.

Dashanna Donovan, 21, was pronounced dead at the scene after cops found her with a gunshot wound to the head at her apartment on E. 96th St. near Astoria Blvd. In East Elmhurst around 9:20 p.m. Friday.

“He had a motive. He knew why. He knew what he was doing,” Donovan’s mother, Helena Hypolite, said of her daughter’s attacker, later offering a heartbreaking eulogy.

“Dashanna was truly special and unique to me because of her unwavering kindness, genuine compassion, and positive attitude,” Hypolite stated. “She consistently

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