{"id":182464,"date":"2026-04-01T18:49:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/182464\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T18:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:49:13","slug":"breaking-7-month-old-baby-shot-dead-on-walk-with-mom-in-brooklyn-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/182464\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING | 7-month-old baby shot dead on walk with mom in Brooklyn, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/14F5E2C6-0D5C-4B7F-AA8A-55CEF4D8C96A.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"police at scene where child was shot dead in Brooklyn\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"BREAKING | 7-month-old baby shot dead on walk with mom in Brooklyn, sources say 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A 7-month-old child was shot dead in Brooklyn, possibly with a stray bullet, in a horrific crime reported on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Dean Moses<\/p>\n<p>A 7-month-old child was shot dead in <a href=\"https:\/\/amny.com\/brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Brooklyn<\/a>, possibly with a stray bullet, in a horrific crime reported on Wednesday afternoon.\n<\/p>\n<p>Sources close to the investigation said the incident happened just before 1:25 p.m. on April 1 near 108 Moore St., near Humboldt Street, in East Williamsburg. The shooting occurred within the confines of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypd90pct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">90th Precinct<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The infant victim was being pushed in a stroller by their mother when shots rang out, the sources said. Seconds later, the mother discovered that her child had been shot in the upper body.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was in the hospital when the father brought the baby in,\u201d one woman told amNewYork. \u201cThe dad brought the baby in. The dad was screaming, \u2018Save my baby!\u2019 And the mother was screaming at the top of her lungs.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The infant was rushed to nearby Woodhull Hospital; despite all efforts, the baby could not be saved, according to the sources.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-137841107\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/EFB01CD2-1047-4CFC-A1FE-61BCD09010FE.jpg\" alt=\"police at scene where child was shot dead in Brooklyn\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" title=\"BREAKING | 7-month-old baby shot dead on walk with mom in Brooklyn, sources say 2\"  \/>Sources close to the investigation said the incident happened just before 1:25 p.m. on April 1 near 108 Moore St., near Humboldt Street, in East Williamsburg. The shooting occurred within the confines of the 90th Precinct.Photo by Dean Moses\n<\/p>\n<p>The circumstances leading up to the shooting are unknown and under investigation, sources close to the case reported.<\/p>\n<p>A massive police investigation is now underway at the crime scene.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>Sources close to the probe said two suspects were seen fleeing the scene riding a moped traveling along Humboldt Street, confirming <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/shots-fired-young-child-rushed-hospital-bushwick-brooklyn\/18823197\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">an ABC7 report<\/a>. So far, no arrests have been made in the ongoing probe.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story; check with amNY.com for additional updates.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 7-month-old child was shot dead in Brooklyn, possibly with a stray bullet, in a horrific crime reported&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[73541,10568,73542,6573,782,2537,787,73543,73544,9,24,790,52092,63,791,122,124,123,5422,73545,11335],"class_list":{"0":"post-182464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-7-month-old-killed","9":"tag-90th-precinct","10":"tag-baby-shot-in-stroller","11":"tag-brooklyn-homicide","12":"tag-brooklyn-shooting","13":"tag-east-williamsburg","14":"tag-gun-violence","15":"tag-infant-shot","16":"tag-moore-street-shooting","17":"tag-new-york","18":"tag-new-york-city","19":"tag-new-york-city-crime","20":"tag-no-arrests-made","21":"tag-nyc","22":"tag-nypd-investigation","23":"tag-queens","24":"tag-queens-headlines","25":"tag-queens-news","26":"tag-stray-bullet","27":"tag-tragic-shooting","28":"tag-woodhull-hospital"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}