I have connected a Shelly Button to my openHAB 3.2.0 via MQTT and one of the MQTT topics (shellies/shellybutton1-98CDAC2DB02C/input_event/0) has the value {"event":"SS","event_cnt":42}.
The JSONPATH should be easy enough using JSONPATH:$.event in the channel’s advanced settings but the value does not change: