{"id":140549,"date":"2026-02-20T23:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T23:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/140549\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T23:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T23:15:09","slug":"family-of-cop-killed-in-bronx-by-estranged-husband-says-24-year-sentence-not-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/140549\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of cop killed in Bronx by estranged husband says 24-year sentence not enough"},"content":{"rendered":"

The outraged family of a transit cop stabbed to death in her Bronx home<\/a> nearly four years ago by her estranged husband said Friday that his sentence of 24 years in prison is not enough.<\/p>\n

Before Argenis Baez was sentenced Thursday by a Bronx judge to nearly a quarter of a century in jail, victim Arianna Reyes-Gomez\u2019 family said the punishment doesn\u2019t match the crime.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we agreed to a 24-year sentence, it was not because we believed her life was worth less. It was not because we accepted that as sufficient,\u201d the slain transit cop\u2019s sister, Norma Julissa Reyes Gomez, 38, said in a victim impact statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur family no longer wanted or could bear to keep seeing your face in court, or your murderous hands,\u201d she said of Baez. \u201cEvery time you appeared, you showed an empty, inattentive demeanor, as if you had no awareness of what you had done. Your presence was a mockery of our pain, a constant provocation. After nearly four years of waiting, emotional exhaustion and being forced to relive the crime again and again, we needed to close this chapter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking to the Daily News the following day, she said the murder was hardest on Reyes-Gomez\u2019 7-year-old son.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe doesn\u2019t know what he did, but he knows that his dad is in jail,\u201d the sister said. \u201cAnd when he was 4, we changed his name. Nobody calls him by the previous name. No one.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"NYPDNYPD Transit Officer Arianna Reyes-Gomez was killed by her estranged husband, Argenis Baez in 2022.<\/p>\n

The victim\u2019s son is now living with his aunt in Georgia, far from the once-bloody home where Reyes-Gomez breathed her last breath.<\/p>\n

It was in that moment that the dedicated cop uttered her last words, \u201cMy son,\u201d according to her family, in a futile effort to convince the boy\u2019s father to spare her life for the sake of their little boy.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was a generous woman with a pure heart who always put others before herself,\u201d her sister said at the sentencing. \u201cShe was a devoted mother, a loving daughter and sister and a hard-working police officer who protected her community with courage.\u201d<\/p>\n

NYPD_STABBED<\/p>\n

\"NYPD<\/p>\n

Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Daily News<\/p>\n

NYPD ESU officers remove the body of NYPD Transit Officer Arianna Reyes-Gomez, who was fatally stabbed inside her apartment on the Grand Concourse near E. 156th St. in the Bronx in 2022. (Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

On Thursday, before Baez was sentenced to two-dozen years in prison, family members described for the court the impact of their loss.<\/p>\n

Norma said the sentence was not punishment enough for what Baez took away from them.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"ArgenisArgenis de Jesus Baez Pizano is pictured in police custody leaving the NYPD’s 44th Precinct stationhouse in the Bronx on Monday, June 13, 2022, after being charged with the murder of NYPD Transit Officer Arianna Reyes-Gomez. (Gardiner Anderson for New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Reyes-Gomez, 31, was stabbed multiple times in her home on Grand Concourse near E. 156th St., police said.<\/p>\n

The slain cop\u2019s 34-year-old estranged husband, surrendered to police and was later charged with murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon.<\/p>\n

The murder outraged various sectors of the city, and served as a reminder that domestic violence affects all parts of the community \u2014 including cops, who usually have to deal with the issue on the other side of the door.<\/p>\n

COPSTAB<\/p>\n

\"Transit<\/p>\n

Obtained by Daily News<\/p>\n

Transit cop Arianna Reyes-Gomez with her estranged husband, Argenis de Jesus Baez Pizano.<\/p>\n

The sister said Baez has shown no remorse.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat guy, he don\u2019t care what he did. He don\u2019t feel sorry for what he did,\u201d she told The News. \u201cHe don\u2019t ask about his son. It looked like he don\u2019t care about his son. He don\u2019t mention anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

NYPD_STABBED<\/p>\n

\"Off-duty<\/p>\n

Luiz C. Ribeiro\/for New York Daily News<\/p>\n

Off-duty NYPD Transit Officer Arianna Reyes-Gomez was fatally stabbed inside her apartment on the Grand Concourse near E. 156th St. in the Bronx in 2022. (Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Daily News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The outraged family of a transit cop stabbed to death in her Bronx home nearly four years ago…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-140549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}