Mom gunned down whereas pushing her stroller in NYC laid to relaxation in emotional scene

The Brooklyn mother of two who was gunned down whereas pushing a stroller final month was remembered at her funeral Friday for her energy, independence and the love she had for her kids.

“This is a mindless loss,” stated Azsia Johnson’s heartbroken mom Lisa DeSort as she rocked the slain girl’s toddler Khloé beside the open casket, tears streaming down her face. 

“It’s too painful… I nonetheless can’t imagine it.” 

Johnson’s family members gathered on the Brooklyn Funeral Home & Cremation Service in East New York for a day viewing and night funeral, which Mayor Eric Adams briefly attended. 

Surrounding Johnson’s casket have been elaborate floral preparations fabricated from pink and white roses and inside, the younger girl was wearing a white high, a pink cardigan and pink beads. 

Gutted mourners gathered across the casket to pay their respects however a handful of kin have been too overwhelmed by grief to face the sight of Johnson’s physique.

“No, no, no, no,” one girl wailed as she walked out of the room sobbing after catching a glimpse of Johnson. 

Beside the coffin have been two giant pictures. One confirmed Johnson together with her son, grinning and carrying matching cow print hats and within the different, she was proven gazing lovingly at her new child daughter Khloé.

On the night of June 29, Johnson made plans to meet up with her ex-boyfriend, Isaac Argro, 22, after he informed her he had stuff for his or her daughter that he wished to offer her, prosecutors stated beforehand.  

Instead, Argro allegedly shot her within the head at point-blank vary in what prosecutors referred to as a “premeditated execution” earlier than fleeing the scene, leaving Khloé crying in a stroller behind him. 

On the night time that she was killed, Johnson informed kin that she wanted to give Argro a chance to be in their daughter’s life as a result of she didn’t need her rising up and not using a dad. 

“Lots of ladies get hit a few times and suppose ‘oh, he nonetheless loves me, it would cease’ after which the worst occurs. That wasn’t Azsia. She left, she received out and received away,” Johnson’s aunt Michelle Knox, 52, stated in the course of the viewing. 

“She gave him an opportunity to see his little one once more, hoping to construct a household relationship and bond. He didn’t even say hello to her, he snuck up behind her like a coward. He shot my child within the head.”

Adams stopped by the funeral dwelling for about 10 minutes and was seen standing quietly in entrance of Johnson’s casket, placing a reassuring hand on DeSort’s again as she sobbed in entrance of her daughter’s physique.

Hizzoner met child Khloé and another kin, hugged a couple of mourners and unnoticed of a again door earlier than the funeral started.

DeSort, who was carrying a white costume and pink scarf, requested mourners to put on the colour after considered one of Johnson’s sisters had a dream about her. 

“My different daughter, who’s right here however is having a tough time, stated ‘I had a dream, one thing about pink with Azsia’. So I stated, ‘that’s it, it’s pink. She’s making an attempt to inform us pink’. So that’s why we’re carrying it,” stated DeSort. 

“We have been lighting candles by the home [on the Fourth of July]. We received three pink candles and three white candles… We lit them one after the opposite, and the white ones stored going out and the pink ones stored lighting greater and better.” 

DeSort, a retired FDNY EMS member, stated she nonetheless hasn’t come to phrases together with her daughter’s homicide and has agonized over the tough highway child Khloé has forward of her with one guardian behind bars and the opposite within the floor. 

“I can’t cease interested by her future and not using a mother or dad, and what I can do for her,” stated DeSort as Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” performed within the background. 

“I envision being together with her and enjoying together with her, taking her out, being together with her, doing her hair — doing all issues together with her that I did together with her mom,” DeSort continued. 

“I do know I gained’t permit anyone to cease me. That’s what her mom would need.”