UES Murder Suspect Wore Ski Mask, Threatened Victim's Loved Ones: DA

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — The man accused of gunning down a young mother while she pushed their baby on an Upper East Side street last month has been charged with her murder, prosecutors announced.

Isaac Argro, 23, was indicted Wednesday on second-degree murder charges for the June 29 killing of 20-year-old Azsia Johnson, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said.

Argro is the father of the three-month-old girl that Johnson was pushing in a stroller that night along East 95th Street between Third and Lexington avenues, authorities say.

Prosecutors shared more details about the attack, saying Argro had convinced Johnson to meet him that evening so that he could give her items for their daughter. Shortly before the killing, Johnson had sent text messages describing where she was meeting Argro and what he was wearing — accounts that matched what 911 callers later reported, prosecutors said.

Argro was dressed in black and wearing a ski mask over his face when he arrived at the East 95th Street corner, without any of the items he had promised to bring, prosecutors allege.

He then shot Johnson in the head at point-blank range before fleeing the scene — with surveillance footage showing him discarding his clothes to avoid being detected by police, according to prosecutors.

Argro then called Johnson's family, asked where his child was, and threatened another person who knew Johnson by telling them they would be "next," Bragg's office said.

"As alleged, Isaac Argro murdered Azsia Johnson, the mother of their 3-month-old child, in a premediated act of fatal domestic violence," Bragg said in a statement.

"Committing this type of killing in front of an infant is horrific, and I cannot imagine the pain that Ms. Johnson’s family and loved ones are experiencing. I want to make clear that we will pursue full accountability and justice in this case."

Besides the murder count, Argro was also hit with a felony weapon possession charge.

The killing stunned the neighborhood and devastated the family of Johnson, whose mother called her a "young queen" and a victim of domestic violence.

Mayor Eric Adams arrived at the scene that night and attended a vigil the following day, where he said that the killing was more evidence of "the over-proliferation of guns on our streets."

"It shows just how this national problem is impacting families," Adams said. "It doesn't matter if you are on the Upper East Side, or East New York, Brooklyn."

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