A funeral for Kaori Patterson-Moore, the 7-month-old baby girl killed by a stray bullet in botched Brooklyn gang hit, has been set for Monday, with Rev. Al Sharpton to give the eulogy, officials said.
The “homegoing” service for the infant will be at Cornerstone Baptist Church on Madison St. in Bedford-Stuyvesant, organizers said.
Kaori was sitting in her stroller on April 1 when a gunman riding on the back of a moped opened fire on her family at the corner of Humboldt and Moore Sts. in East Williamsburg about 1:20 p.m., cops said.
Police investigate (main) after a 7-month-old girl in a stroller was fatally shot near Humboldt and Moore Sts. in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on April 1. The suspects are pictured (top inset), and a bloody pink knit baby’s bonnet is pictured on the ground near the scene. (Gardiner Anderson; Kerry Burke / New York Daily News; Obtained by NYDN)
The stray bullet went through Kaori’s head and grazed her 2-year-old brother’s back. Another passerby suffered a minor injury after being struck with a bullet fragment that struck a wall.
Grieving family members said Kaori had just taken her first step and had said her first word, “Mama,” in the days before her death.
“My daughter, she was innocent. She was happy. She was always laughing,” the girl’s heartbroken mother, 20-year-old Lianna Moore, told The News following the shooting. “She didn’t deserve that.”
Lianna Moore (pictured), mother of Kaori Patterson-Moore.
The National Action Network confirmed Saturday that Rev. Sharpton will perform the eulogy.
“Her death has sent shockwaves through Brooklyn and across the city and has reignited urgent calls for an end to the gun violence that continues to claim the lives of innocent children,” a spokesman for NAN said. “Rev. Sharpton stands with the family of this precious child and with every family that has had to bury a son or daughter taken too soon by senseless gun violence.”
Police said that the shooting was part of an ongoing gang beef between a gang that operates in the Bushwick Houses and another crew known as Money Over Everything.
The accused gunman, Amuri Greene, 21, and the moped driver, Matthew Rodriguez, 18, crashed shortly after the shooting. Greene, who broke his leg in the crash, was taken to the hospital and arrested.
The NYPD released surveillance footage of the gunman and his accomplice in the stray-bullet shooting of a 7-month-old girl in a stroller near Humboldt and Moore Sts. in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (NYPD)
Rodriguez was caught a few days later in Pennsylvania and is expected to be returned to New York in the coming days, cops said.
While being questioned by police, Greene claimed he was aiming at Kaori’s father, and was seeking revenge for a prior shooting when he opened fire. But it wasn’t clear if Greene or the tot’s dad were involved in the alleged earlier shooting.
Greene has ties to Money Over Everything, which operates out of the Marcy Houses, police said.
He and Rodriguez have been indicted on a raft of criminal charges, including murder, attempted murder and assault.
Kaori Patterson-Moore, a 7-month-old girl, was fatally shot near Humboldt and Moore Sts. in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on April 1. (Courtesy of Lianna Moore)
Kaori’s mother vehemently denied that her fiancé was the target, and Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez partially walked that back Tuesday when announcing grand jury indictments against the two suspects.
“I am not prepared to say today definitively that the father was the target,” Gonzalez told reporters. “We know that he was intending to shoot a person in that crowd, and the baby’s father was among those people in that crowd. But I don’t think it’s completely 100% clear to me that this was, in fact, the person they were shooting at and that they knew who he was.”
After a vigil near the scene of the shooting last week, Kaori’s dad released a letter to the media. Describing his anguish over the devastating loss of his daughter, he called it an “unbearable pain” and said that Kaori was one of his “greatest achievements in life.” He said that after Kaori’s birth, he had been determined to turn his life around.