{"id":295880,"date":"2026-07-14T20:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T20:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/295880\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T20:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T20:41:07","slug":"man-convicted-of-shooting-the-mother-of-his-child-sentenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/295880\/","title":{"rendered":"Man convicted of shooting the mother of his child sentenced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was sentenced to 25 years to life in state prison for fatally shooting the mother of his child on the Upper East Side, the Manhattan District Attorney\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p>What You Need To Know<\/p>\n<p>A man was sentenced to 25 years to life in state prison for fatally shooting the mother of his child on the Upper East Side, the Manhattan District Attorney\u2019s office said<br \/>\n<br \/>Isaac Argro, 26, was sentenced Tuesday for fatally shooting 20-year-old Azsia Johnson in June 2022, the Manhattan DA\u2019s office announced<br \/>\n<br \/>He had been convicted of second-degree murder and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon on May 28<\/p>\n<p>Isaac Argro, 26, was sentenced Tuesday for fatally shooting 20-year-old Azsia Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/public-safety\/2022\/06\/30\/woman-walking-with-stroller-shot-dead-on-upper-east-side--police\" title=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/public-safety\/2022\/06\/30\/woman-walking-with-stroller-shot-dead-on-upper-east-side--police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">in June 2022<\/a>, the Manhattan DA\u2019s office announced.<\/p>\n<p>He had been convicted of second-degree murder and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon on May 28.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson was walking with their 3-month-old child in a stroller on June 29, 2022 when she was shot in the head by Argro, according to the Manhattan DA\u2019s office. She was pronounced dead at Metropolitan Hospital, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Manhattan DA\u2019s office, Argro had convinced Johnson to meet him by saying he would give her items for their daughter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Johnson had sent text messages to a family member detailing where the meeting was and what Argro was wearing, which matched the accounts of 911 callers following the incident, the Manhattan DA\u2019s office\u2019s said.<\/p>\n<p>After the shooting, Argro fled the scene and discarded his outfit, according to the Manhattan DA\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAzsia Johnson was a loving parent who left an abusive relationship and began to rebuild her life,\u201d Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg wrote in a statement. \u201cHer dreams of moving forward were brought to a horrific end when her ex, Isaac Argro, executed her in cold blood in front of their infant daughter.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was sentenced to 25 years to life in state prison for fatally shooting the mother of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[387,25,75,84,83,9,24,12,63,308,73913,27,200],"class_list":["post-295880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-top-stories","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-public-safety","tag-sarah-ng","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295880","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=295880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}