NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 A New York man who was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend as she pushed their baby in a stroller was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years to life in prison, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n
A jury convicted Isaac Argro in May of murder in the 2022 death of Azsia Johnson. Prosecutors said Argro gunned her down on a street by a Manhattan playground after he persuaded her to meet so he could give her things for their 3-month-old daughter.<\/p>\n
\u201cAzsia 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.<\/p>\n
A message seeking comment was sent to a lawyer for Argro, who is 26.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors have said Argro physically and emotionally abused Johnson, 20. She ultimately left him but was \u201cdetermined to give co-parenting a try,” the D.A. said in a statement this spring.<\/p>\n
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\u2019t injured.<\/p>\n
Argro was arrested two days later.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 A New York man who was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend as she pushed…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":934892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[49764,5229,376827,5249,376826,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,184754,184755,299692,291900,184750,184752,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-934891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-alvin-bragg","tag-america","tag-isaac-argro","tag-manhattan","tag-mother-shot-pushing-stroller-exboyfriend-convicted-nyc","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100373-mc-complete-state-national","tag-product-30083-ap-new-york-city-news-no-weather","tag-product-30085-ap-new-york-state-news-no-weather","tag-product-30598-ap-national-news-report-a-wire","tag-product-31998-ap-online-national-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}