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The ex-boyfriend of the mother brutally murdered while pushing her baby’s stroller in New York is arrested

The ex-boyfriend of a woman from the city of New York who was shot to death while pushing her young daughter in a stroller was jailed without bail, with prosecutors describing the killing as a “premeditated execution.”

isaac argro22, appeared Saturday night in Manhattan Criminal Court on charges of second-degree murder and second-degree weapons possession.

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Prosecutor Brittany DeCesare told Judge Eric Schumacher that on the night of the murder, argro dressed in black and wore a balaclava as he paced back and forth hoping to shoot Azsia Johnsonhis estranged girlfriend.

“This case can only be described as a premeditated execution”DeCesare said, according to The New York Post. “The defendant persuaded the victim to meet after work and under the pretense that he wanted to give the deceased items for her 3-month-old daughter.”

The defense attorney for argro he declined to comment.

Johnson, 20, was shot around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday near the intersection of Lexington Avenue and 95th Street on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. She was pronounced dead at a hospital.

The 3-month-old baby in the stroller was not injured but was taken to a hospital for medical evaluation, police said.

Authorities allege that Argro called Johnson’s family after the shooting to ask where their son was and threatened to have another unidentified person “followed,” the Post reported.

Johnson’s family has said that Argro routinely abused the mother of their child, beating her during her pregnancy and threatening to kill her.

Argro will return to court on Thursday.

Source: Elcomercio

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