Azsia Johnson shooting suspect ‘ARRESTED’ after NYC 20-year-old killed while pushing baby in stroller on Upper East Side
A SUSPECT has reportedly been arrested in the case of a young mother who was shot dead while pushing her baby in a stroller.
The arrest comes after Azsia Johnson, 20, was shot in the head around 8.30pm on Wednesday while pushing her three-month-old daughter in a stroller in New York City.
The 22-year-old father of her three-month-old baby was a person of interest, according to CBS.
The Brooklyn arrest was announced by local station PIX11 News.
The New York Police Department confirmed to PEOPLE that Johnson was pushing the stroller on the Upper East Side of Manhattan when someone approached her and shot her in the head in what is believed to be a targeted attack.
Police have said that the hooded man, wearing all black, shot her from behind, at point-blank range.
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She was found unconscious at the scene and taken to Metropolitan Hospital where she was pronounced dead, according to multiple sources. Her baby remained unharmed.
A chilling final text by Johnson revealed that she was meeting with the 3-month-old’s father “to work things out,” the day of the murder, police told ABC7.
She also has a one-year-old son.
“I knew it was going to come to this, and I told my daughter this,” Lisa Desort, mother of the victim, told ABC.
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“For some reason, she felt like she needed to be tracked, so she text her sister and said, ‘This is my location, just in case.'”
The NYPD’s public information office told The Sun that they cannot confirm any arrests or charges at this time.
However, law enforcement sources have reportedly confirmed to other outlets that an arrest has been made in the case of Johnson’s murder.
‘VIOLENT HISTORY’
Johnson was allegedly a victim of domestic violence and a complaint was reportedly filed against her partner in January, according to Desort.
“The city failed my daughter because on January 1, my daughter called me and said she was being abused while she was six months pregnant,” Desort told NBC New York.
“She was scared to call the police so she gave me the address. I called police,” said Desort.
Police responded and made sure Johnson was safe according to Desort. Johnson had come to live with Desort after the incident, according to NBC.
On one occasion, in January, Ms. Johnson called her mother in the middle of a violent episode.
“She called me crying, saying, ‘Mommy, he’s hitting me.’ And she was hysterical,” Desort told The New York Times.
Desort told the news outlet that she reported the incident to the police, but the man continued to threaten Ms. Johnson and her family.
“He said, ‘I’m going to kill you and all of the birds that go along with you,’” said Desort.
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Eventually, Johnson ended up living in a domestic violence shelter, NBC said.
“I tried to protect my daughter in every way. She had to leave my house, she couldn’t live there because he knew where I lived,” Desort told NBC.
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