A 7-month-old girl was fatally shot in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Wednesday afternoon, authorities said.<\/p>\n
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a news conference that the shooting happened around 1:21 p.m. as the girl\u2019s mother pushed her in a stroller near the intersection of Humboldt and Moore streets.<\/p>\n
She said two men on a moped drove against traffic on Humboldt Street when the passenger drew a gun and fired at least two rounds toward a sidewalk crowded with adults and children.<\/p>\n
One of the bullets struck the girl, Tisch said. Police later identified her as Kaori Patterson-Moore from Brooklyn.<\/p>\n
Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said the baby\u2019s father then picked her up and rushed her to Woodhull Hospital, where doctors pronounced her dead.<\/p>\n
Tisch said the moped continued northbound before crashing into a car, throwing both men from the scooter. The rear passenger hit the pavement so hard that he lost his shoes.<\/p>\n
EMS workers responding to that crash took the rear passenger to a hospital. Police said he was in custody on an unrelated case and investigators are working to determine his connection to the shooting.<\/p>\n
Tisch said investigators used surveillance video to track the suspects and determined the moped left the Bushwick Houses just before the shooting. After the crash, the driver fled toward the Marcy Houses.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is the subject of a massive NYPD manhunt and all New York City police officers have a very clear picture of this outstanding suspect on their phones,\u201d Tisch said.<\/p>\n
Officials said investigators believe the shooting was gang-motivated and that the child was not the intended target. Police have not recovered a weapon.<\/p>\n
Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who attended the news conference, said the city cannot accept this kind of violence.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe cannot grow numb to this pain, and today is a devastating reminder of just how much more work there is to be done to combat gun violence across this city,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Leslie Bradbury, who is originally from Queens, said he remembers Brooklyn\u2019s \u201cnotorious\u201d reputation for shootings when he was growing up.<\/p>\n
\u201cI really can\u2019t tell you about the last time I heard about some kid being shot,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Bradbury, who moved to East Williamsburg about a year ago and lives a few blocks from the shooting, said he was struck by how close it hit home.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis child was seven months. That\u2019s crazy,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I haven\u2019t heard about shootings in a while \u2014 especially in Brooklyn, because this place is being gentrified. And with the police presence? You don\u2019t really see them, but you can feel them.\u201d<\/p>\n