Police to charge suspect in fatal shooting of infant in Brooklyn
WILLIAMSBURG — A person suspected of shooting and killing a 7-month-old child in a stroller Wednesday afternoon might be charged with homicide, and police are looking for a second suspect, New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch stated at a press conference on Thursday.
The horrifying incident happened when a person using on the again of a moped fired at a gaggle of adults and youngsters on a sidewalk in Williamsburg, killing Kaori Patterson–Moore.
Kaori, who lived in Clinton Hill, was shot in her stroller round 1:21 pm at the intersection of Moore and Humboldt streets. She was transported to New York City Health and Hospitals/Woodhull by personal means, the place she was pronounced deceased, police stated.
The drive-by shooting has shocked town. “There are no words that can mend the heartbreak this family is feeling right now,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani stated at a press convention on the scene Wednesday. “A life that had barely begun was taken in an instant.”
Tisch informed reporters Wednesday the shooter fired at the least two rounds at a nook the place a number of adults and two strollers had been standing, with a number of youngsters close by. The sufferer was in one of these strollers.
Video obtained by police confirmed the mopeds had left the Bushwick Houses simply minutes earlier than the shooting, Tisch stated. Additional video confirmed the escaping moped crashing into an oncoming automotive two blocks from the crime scene, with each males thrown from the scooter. The rear passenger was thrown so exhausting that he misplaced each his footwear, which had been recovered by police.
A 911 name leads police to imagine the moped’s passenger was introduced by Emergency Medical Services to The Brooklyn Hospital Center, the place he was held in custody for an unrelated investigation.
Tisch named Amari Green, 21, because the set off man. He might be charged not solely with homicide, but additionally two counts of tried homicide, she stated.
The suspect nonetheless being sought (the driving force) is described as a younger man sporting gentle grey pants and a white T-shirt, with a black surgical masks over his decrease face.
“This is a terrible day in our city, a tragedy that truly shocks the conscience,” Tisch stated. “As a mother, I cannot imagine the pain that this family is feeling or the grief that they now carry with them. It is unspeakable.”
Shooting incidents year-to-date are down 25% citywidein contrast to 2024, and 40% in contrast to 2023, the Brooklyn Eagle reported final week. In the primary two months of 2026, the NYPD delivered the bottom quantity of shooting incidents, shooting victims and murders for that point interval in recorded historical past.
Updated figures launched by Tisch on Thursday present the development continued in March, when town skilled the fewest murders and shooting incidents for the primary quarter of the 12 months for the reason that metropolis started conserving statistics.
During the primary quarter of 2026, there have been 54 murders citywide, beating the earlier all-time low of 60 murders set in 2018. During the identical time interval, there have been 139 shooting incidents, tying the all-time low of 139 set in 2025, the most secure 12 months for gun violence recorded by town.
