A baby girl in a stroller was killed by a stray bullet during a gang-related shooting in Bushwick on Wednesday afternoon, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The 7-month-old was struck at around 1:20 p.m. after the rear passenger of a moped fired two rounds on the corner of Moore and Humboldt streets, where multiple children and adults were standing.<\/p>\n
Police say the moped passenger matches the description of the shooter and is in custody. The driver remains on the run, and a “massive NYPD manhunt” is underway, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch says.<\/p>\n
Heavy NYPD and FDNY presence overtook the intersection, just steps away from a day care.<\/p>\n
A witness called the News 12 newsroom minutes after the shooting and said they saw a person running with the stroller moments later, shouting, “My baby! My baby!”<\/p>\n
Authorities say the baby’s father ran her five blocks to NYC Health + Hospitals\/Woodhull. The baby did not survive.<\/p>\n
An NYPD Crime Stoppers van at 131 Moore St. projected images of the suspected gunmen on a moped. It says authorities are offering up to $3,500 for information regarding the fatal shooting.<\/p>\n
The man on the run was last seen moving toward the NYCHA Marcy Houses wearing gray pants, a white t-shirt and a black surgical mask.<\/p>\n
Police say the moped riders crashed into an oncoming car and were thrown from the moped near Siegel Street and Manhattan Avenue while attempting to flee the scene.<\/p>\n
A second crime scene was established here, where vehicle debris was seen scattered in the road.<\/p>\n
Surveillance video of the crash shows the rear passenger, who police say matches the description of the shooter, hit the pavement so hard that his shoes fly off.<\/p>\n
Authorities received a 911 call after the crash for an injured man. He was taken to the hospital and placed in custody for a separate incident, a domestic violence-related robbery. He has not officially been charged for the shooting as of Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n
Police say the moped was recovered five blocks west of the shooting, at Warsaw Place and Flushing Avenue, and has been secured for processing by its Crime Scene Unit.<\/p>\n
Authorities are working to figure out who was the intended target of the shooting, according to Tisch.<\/p>\n
During a press conference on Wednesday evening, Mayor Zohran Mamdani emphasized the gravity of the incident, stating, “We cannot accept this as normal in our city.”<\/p>\n
The mayor sent his condolences to the baby’s family.<\/p>\n
“There are no words that can mend the heartbreak this family is feeling now,” Mamdani said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A baby girl in a stroller was killed by a stray bullet during a gang-related shooting in Bushwick…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[73651,73652,98,100,99,9449,6809,58981,9,24,63,103,1096],"class_list":{"0":"post-182805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-baby-killed","9":"tag-baby-shot","10":"tag-brooklyn","11":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","12":"tag-brooklyn-news","13":"tag-bushwick","14":"tag-gangs","15":"tag-mopeds","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-nypd","20":"tag-shooting"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182805","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=182805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}