Young Mom Gunned Down in NYC Made Multiple Domestic Violence Complaints
The young mom fatally shot Wednesday night on Manhattan’s Upper East Side while pushing her 3-month-old baby in a stroller was a high school track runner who hoped to become a nurse, according to relatives.
Azsia Johnson, 20, was gunned down near the corner of Lexington Ave. and 95th Street at around 8:23 p.m, authorities said. Responding officers found Johnson unconscious, and she was taken by ambulance to nearby Metropolitan Hospital. Doctors pronounced Johnson dead at 9:19 p.m., a senior law enforcement official told The Daily Beast. The child was uninjured.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the official said the unknown assailant, who was wearing a black hoodie and sweatpants, walked away from the scene towards 3rd Ave. after shooting Johnson once in the head at point blank range. Johnson was planning to meet the baby’s father that night, her family reportedly told police. No suspects have yet been publicly identified.