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The younger mother who was shot and killed while pushing her 3-month-old baby in a stroller on the Upper East Side was a home violence sufferer — and cops need to converse with the kid’s father in reference to the slaying, household and regulation enforcement sources mentioned Thursday.
The sufferer, recognized by her mom as 20-year-old Azsia Johnson, texted family members that she had been planning on assembly her toddler’s dad on Wednesday night time, based on the sources.
“She was focused. It was an in depth head shot and there have been powder burns,” a high-ranking police supply mentioned.
Johnson had been assaulted by her ex-boyfriend in Jamaica, Queens, about six months in the past whereas six months pregnant along with his youngster, her heartbroken mother, Lisa Desort, informed The Post.
Following the altercation, Desort mentioned, the ex-boyfriend continued “stalking” and harassing her daughter. They referred to as police for assist, however he was not arrested, she claimed.
“We referred to as the precinct quite a few occasions to inform the [domestic violence] unit that he was stalking and harrowing her. Even [though] they knew what house he lived in, they did not apprehend and arrest him,” the mother continued.
“The metropolis failed to guard my daughter.”
The NYPD didn’t instantly return a request for remark. Law enforcement sources confirmed Johnson had beforehand been the sufferer of a home violence incident, and that her taking pictures loss of life was “home” in nature.
Investigators need to converse with the ex in reference to the homicide and he’s thought of an individual of curiosity within the slaying, the sources mentioned.
Around 8:25 p.m. Wednesday, Johnson was strolling along with her toddler in a carriage close to the nook of Lexington Avenue and East ninety fifth Street when an assailant wearing a black hoodie and sweatpants shot her as soon as within the head and fled.
She was delivered to Metropolitan Hospital, the place she was pronounced useless. The youngster was unhurt.
Desort, who was too distraught to talk by telephone, referred to as her daughter “an distinctive younger woman” with massive goals in a textual content message.
“She labored exhausting and had goals of changing into a pediatric nurse within the close to future,” Desort wrote.
Johnson lived along with her mom and sisters in an house within the Bronx however had been out and in of the shelter system over the past 12 months, based on regulation enforcement sources and a neighbor on the constructing.
“Last night time somebody got here and informed her mom … and she or he simply began screaming, ‘My child’s useless, my child’s useless!’ … then all of them left,” mentioned the neighbor, who didn’t need to share their title.
“Azsia simply had that child three months in the past. She’s a gorgeous little lady.”
On Thursday morning, police have been seen towing a Lexus SUV with an obvious bullet gap above the entrance proper wheel arch that had been parked in a single day close to the scene of the taking pictures.
The car’s proprietor, Julio Cruz, 62, hopes it’ll assist cops observe down the killer.
“The officer mentioned the outlet in my automotive is the dimensions of a bullet and the bullet might be nonetheless contained in the automotive,” Cruz informed The Post, including he didn’t see the outlet on Wednesday afternoon.
“They will examine the automotive and attempt to discover the bullet … I hope they discover one thing that can assist this case.”
