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Isaac Argro was arrested yesterday as a suspect in the murder of Azsia Johnson, the mother of his newborn baby.

Johnson, of 19 years old, was shot in the head when she was walking her baby in 95th St. and Lexington Ave., just steps from Samuel Seabury Playground. A man dressed in black barged in and shot him point-blank in the back of the head around 8: 30 Wednesday pm. Paramedics rushed her to Metropolitan Hospital but were unable to save her. The baby was not harmed

Argro, from 22 years old, he is the father of the baby Johnson was walking when she was murdered. He was charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon, at the Police Station 19 from Manhattan. The news of the arrest was announced on Twitter by the New York Police Commissioner, Keechant Sewell, and Mayor Eric Adams issued a comment in the same way:

“The family of Azsia Johnson is suffering They deserve justice and we will do it. I am relieved to inform New Yorkers that we have captured the individual we believe murdered this young woman while she was walking with her baby,” wrote the Mayor of New York.

From the beginning, the NYPD was looking for Argro, because at the The young mother was shot on her way to meet her ex-partner, who had offered her clothes for the baby, police sources said, citing a text message Johnson had sent to relatives.

“He’s a coward,” he told Daily News Sandra Johnson, aunt of the victim. “She did nothing to him but let him see that baby, and he killed her in the street.” “Her daughter will never know her,” she added disconsolately.

The young woman left two orphaned girls, since she already had another daughter with a previous partner . Argro was arrested yesterday in Brownsville (Brooklyn) and then taken to the police station located at 30th St, on the Upper East Side. The couple reportedly had a domestic violence incident on Jan. 1, but by the time NYPD arrived at the Brooklyn apartment they shared, Argro had already left.

Cops with the NYPD Domestic Violence Unit followed up and a misdemeanor assault charge was filed against Argro. But until Friday he was not arrested.

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By Scribe