{"id":295710,"date":"2026-07-14T18:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T18:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/295710\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T18:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T18:22:09","slug":"man-gets-prison-in-deadly-shooting-of-ex-girlfriend-as-she-pushed-their-babys-stroller-in-nyc-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/295710\/","title":{"rendered":"Man gets prison in deadly shooting of ex-girlfriend as she pushed their baby&#8217;s stroller in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 A New York man who was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend <a data-ylk=\"slk:as she pushed their baby in a stroller;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/shootings-new-york-julie-menin-a13adc412b1266afd0e27f02b5115bf8\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">as she pushed their baby in a stroller<\/a> was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years to life in prison, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 <a data-ylk=\"slk:persuaded her to meet so he could give her things;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/stroller-woman-shot-new-york-city-63d07a5d71ce7a5c422e4a5f7dc6f4ce\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">persuaded her to meet so he could give her things<\/a> for their 3-month-old daughter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;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&#8221; by Argro, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A message seeking comment was sent to a lawyer for Argro, who is 26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Prosecutors have said Argro physically and emotionally abused Johnson, 20. She ultimately left him but was &#8220;determined to give co-parenting a try,&#8221; the D.A. said in a statement this spring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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&#8217;t injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Argro <a data-ylk=\"slk:was arrested;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/new-york-arrests-city-be8368795209a28c421686283453fc65\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">was arrested<\/a> two days later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[112674,51457,112675,9,56,63,65,64,5269],"class_list":["post-295710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-azsia-johnson","tag-ex-girlfriend","tag-isaac-argro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-prosecutors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295710","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=295710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}