Footage shows two men on a moped and one pulls out a gun
A seven-month-old baby girl was shot dead in her pram in New York City.
Police believe the child, named Kaori, was the unintended victim of a drive-by gang shooting in the Williamsburg neighbourhood of Brooklyn on Wednesday afternoon.
“My daughter was innocent. She didn’t deserve that,” her mother Lianna Charles-Moore told the New York Post.
“We were just going outside to go get her a few things, and my son a few things.”
Her two-year-old son, who witnessed the shooting, was grazed by the bullet.
Footage shows two men driving through oncoming traffic on a moped, before one pulls out a gun.
A manhunt for the driver is underway
At least two rounds were fired from the weapon, New York City police commissioner Jessica Tisch said.
As they fled, the moped crashed into a car and the alleged shooter was apprehended. A manhunt for the driver is underway.
The collision had such force that the shoes of one of the men flew off his feet.
“A life that had barely begun was taken in an instant,” New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a statement.
“Today is a devastating reminder of how much more work there is to be done to combat gun violence across this city.”
A moped crashed into a car moments after the shooting – Kyle Mazza/TheNews2/Cover Images
A police officer collects a blood-stained hat from the crime scene in Brooklyn – Kyle Mazza/NurPhoto/Shutterstock
He demanded that such violence does not become normal and urged the city not to “grow numb to this pain”.
Officials said the little girl, who had recently learned to say the word “Mama”, was taken in an ambulance to Woodhull Hospital where she was pronounced dead at 1.46pm.
An injured man was taken to Brooklyn Hospital where he was identified as a “person of interest” in the shooting.