NEW YORK (AP) — A New York man who was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend as she pushed their baby in a stroller on the Upper East Side was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years to life in prison, prosecutors said.
A jury convicted Isaac Argro in May of murder in the 2022 death of Azsia Johnson. Prosecutors said Argro gunned her down on East 95th Street, between Lexington and Third Avenues, after he persuaded her to meet so he could give her things for their 3-month-old daughter.
“Azsia Johnson was a loving parent who left an abusive relationship and began to rebuild her life. Her dreams of moving forward were brought to a horrific end" by Argro, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a statement.
A message seeking comment was sent to a lawyer for Argro, who is 26.
Prosecutors have said Argro physically and emotionally abused Johnson, 20. She ultimately left him but was “determined to give co-parenting a try," the D.A. said in a statement this spring.
Johnson agreed to meet Argro to collect the supposed baby items on June 29, 2022, telling a relative by text about the meeting, prosecutors said. They said Argro waited for her on the street and shot her, point-blank, in the temple. The child wasn’t injured.
Argro was arrested two days later.
Then-Mayor Eric Adams and other officials attended a vigil for Johnson a day after the shooting and supporters still put up her photo at the shooting site on the anniversary every year.
