A community has been rattled, and police are on the hunt after a baby was shot in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The baby girl wasn’t the intended target of the shooting but happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Her mother was pushing her in a stroller down the street when someone just opened fire. While others were injured during the surprise attack, she was the only one who died. Police have one of the two suspects in custody after he was injured, but the second suspect is still on the loose. They are now scouring the city in an attempt to make an arrest.
The baby was shot in broad daylight.
She was part of a group of people that included adults and other children who were on a street corner on April 1, 2026, New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch shared in a press conference. Around 1:20 p.m., two men pulled up on a moped and the one riding on the back opened fire, striking the baby girl.
After hearing the shots, the girl’s mother rushed her into a nearby bodega, where she noticed her daughter was bleeding, CBS New York reported. She was identified as 7-month-old Kaori Patterson-Moore.
“When she looked at the stroller and the baby is bleeding, she go crazy,” deli worker Abdo Alzokari told the outlet.
The girl’s father rushed her to nearby Woodhull Hospital, where she was declared dead.
“I thought it was fireworks, but then they hit me on my leg,” witness Bernius Maldonado said, per CBS New York. “The family went to the store and the mom started screaming when she noticed the baby was bleeding from [her] head. The baby was lifeless… and the father just picked up the baby and ran to the hospital.”
The girl’s mother has spoken out after her loss.
“I can’t get her back. She’s gone, and I can’t ever see her again,” the girl’s mother, Lianna Charles-Moore said through tears to CBS New York. “I can’t smell her, can’t kiss her — I can’t wake up and feed her her bottle. Everything I wanted to do with her, I can’t do with her anymore,” she continued.
Charles-Moore said Kaori was the bright part of everyone’s lives, always smiling and laughing. “My son, he keeps asking for her, asking where she’s at, and if we’re going to her. I don’t know what to tell him,” she told the outlet.
According to Charles-Moore, her baby had just begun saying “mama,” and now she’s planning a funeral. “I gotta bury her now, and I can’t even hold my baby. I can’t hold her anymore. She’s gone.”
Her grandparents also spoke out.
Linda Oyinkoinyan, Kaori’s grandmother, is a pastor. She spoke with CBS New York about the loss of her granddaughter, telling the outlet that she forgives the men who killed the baby.
Her forgiveness, however, doesn’t take the place of the heartbreak she’s experiencing. “It’s a baby. This is my little baby angel. She had nothing. She was innocent,” the woman shared with the outlet.
“Why would someone take a gun and point it at a stroller? A stroller?” Kaori’s grandfather Godsking Oyinkoinyan wondered.
Linda Oyinkoinyan also shared the conversation she had with her grandson, who was grazed by shrapnel in the shooting, about his little sister.
“He said, ‘Sister is sleeping, oh God, sister is sleeping, Grandma,’” she said, per CBS New York. “So I tell everyone out there, gun violence is not the answer. It just keeps trickling down, people shooting, getting killed.”
A GoFundMe account has been started by a family friend to help with funeral expenses and to support the family as they grieve.
Police are still looking for the second suspect.
WANTED FOR HOMICIDE: On 4/1/2026 at 1:21 pm, a baby was shot and killed near Moore St. and Humboldt St. in Brooklyn. The NYPD is looking for two males who fled northbound on a moped near Humboldt Street. If you have any information, call @NYPDTips at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477). pic.twitter.com/SZpzQPF9NO
— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) April 1, 2026
The alleged shooter, 21-year-old Amuri Greene, is in custody, WABC reported. As of April 3, 2026, he was hospitalized with a broken leg he received after the baby was shot.
Greene and another man, who police have identified but not named publicly, left the scene of the shooting on the moped, going the wrong way down a one-way street. They collided with a car and were thrown from the moped. Greene was thrown so hard that his shoes allegedly fell off, per WABC.
He was taken into police custody at the hospital on an unrelated domestic violence-related robbery charge, WABC reported. He will be charged with murder and two counts of attempted murder. His arraignment is pending.
Investigators are looking into whether Kaori’s father may have been the intended target as a part of a dispute with a rival gang.
