The ex-boyfriend of a young woman fatally shot in Manhattan has been arrested in connection to her murder.
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The young woman was a domestic violence victim who was stalked and abused by the suspect
20-year-old Azsia Johnson was walking her three-month-old baby on the Upper East Side on Wednesday evening when a man approached her behind and shot her in the head. NYPD investigators later identified the suspect as 22-year-old Isaac Argro and arrested him Friday; and said he’s the father of Johnson’s child. According to the New York Post, Johnson’s relatives said she was stalked and abused by Argo throughout their relationship. On New Year’s Day, she filed a police report stating he assaulted her at his home in Jamaica. Queens while she was six months pregnant.
Her mother, Lisa Desort, said her daughter moved to a domestic violence shelter due to safety concerns, but Argro eventually found out about the location in East Harlem. Before the shooting, Johnson arranged a meeting with Argro after reportedly feeling bad that he wasn’t involved in their daughter’s life.
“He was stalking her to the point he knew when she was discharged from Mount Sinai hospital with her daughter,” Desort recalled. She said her daughter feared for her life after giving birth to her daughter.
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Azsia Johnson had dreams of working as a nurse before the deadly shooting
The shooting led to a citywide outcry against domestic violence as crime surged in New York City. Desort said she wants police to take domestic violence cases more seriously during a candlelight vigil for her daughter on Thursday.
“I will try and do something for domestic violence. I feel my voice and my experience might be able to help another young woman who is being abused. We called the precinct numerous times to tell the [domestic violence] unit that he was stalking and [harassing] her. Even [though] they knew what apartment he lived in, they failed to apprehend and arrest him,”
Sources claim that Argo reportedly called Johnson’s family members to check on his daughter. Desort added that her daughter was currently on maternity leave from her job as a home health aide and wanted to work as a pediatric nurse after being recently enrolled in nursing school.
“She worked hard and had dreams of becoming a pediatric nurse in the near future. She was a good girl who was never in trouble. She was respectable.”
NYC Mayor Eric Adams also released a statement while attending the vigil.
“The [police] commissioner and I have been in too many hospitals talking to family members saying sorry for what’s happening. We really need all of our city to unite and send a strong message that we don’t want to wake up to gunshots. We don’t want to see blood on our streets. We don’t want to lose innocent families and children.”