The ex-boyfriend of a 20-year-old New York woman who was fatally shot while walking her baby in a stroller in Manhattan has been indicted on murder charges, the Manhattan district attorney’s office announced Wednesday.
23-year-old Isaac Argro is charged with murder in the second degree and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree in the murder of Azsia Johnson, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg detailed.
“Committing this type of killing in front of an infant is horrific, and I cannot imagine the pain that Ms. Johnson’s family and loved ones are experiencing. I want to make clear that we will pursue full accountability and justice in this case,” he said in a statement.
Argro is the father of the victim’s 3-month-old baby. Johnson reportedly was a prior victim of domestic violence and Argro allegedly had abused and stalked her in the past, according to the New York Post.
Media reports indicate she had most recently been staying with family in the Bronx and in a domestic-violence victim’s shelter in Manhattan near where she was killed.
Johnson was fatally shot on June 29 around 8:20 p.m. at Lexington Avenue and East 95th Street on the Upper East Side.
Johnson and Argro had agreed to meet up on June 29 to exchange items for their daughter. But Argro, dressed in black with a ski mask over his face, shot Johnson in the head and then fled the scene, later discarding the clothes he was wearing, prosecutors said.
Afterward, Argro called Johnson’s family to ask where his child was and threatened an individual, telling them they were “next,” according to the prosecutor’s office.
Public records indicate Johnson had lived with family in an apartment on Walker Street in Elm Park in recent years. She graduated from Port Richmond High School in 2019.
Johnson’s heartbroken mother, Lisa Desort, said that her daughter was working toward being a pediatric nurse and was on maternity leave from her job as a home health aide.
“She had a child early and she was the most wonderful mother that you can imagine,” Desort said. “She was hard working. She worked every day. She’s got more credit than a 30-, 40-year-old person has. She aspired to have houses and give her children the best of everything.”
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