{"id":183195,"date":"2026-04-02T06:16:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T06:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/183195\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T06:16:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T06:16:05","slug":"infant-in-stroller-killed-by-stray-bullet-in-brooklyn-shooter-flees-on-scooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/183195\/","title":{"rendered":"Infant in stroller killed by stray bullet in Brooklyn, shooter flees on scooter"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 7-month-old girl in a stroller was killed by a stray bullet from a botched gang hit in Brooklyn<\/a> Wednesday \u2014 with the panicked father rushing his child in vain to a local hospital as the gunman fled on a scooter, police said.<\/p>\n

Kaori Patterson-Moore was struck in the head by the stray bullet as her mom pushed her in a stroller near Humboldt and Moore Sts. in East Williamsburg at about 1:20 p.m., cops said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are devastated,\u201d said little Kaori\u2019s distraught grandmother, who lives across the street from the shooting scene and gave her name only as Arlene.<\/p>\n

The infant girl\u2019s stroller was beside another baby stroller and several other children and adults when she was shot, according to Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch.<\/p>\n

The shooter was riding behind an accomplice together on a scooter when he drew his gun, startling surveillance footage released by the NYPD shows. Cops took a 21-year-old person of interest into custody later in the afternoon, NYPD sources said.<\/p>\n

\"PoliceThe 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. (NYPD)<\/p>\n

The startled 20-year-old mom ran into a nearby bodega with Kaori still with her in the stroller, police sources said.<\/p>\n

Once inside, she looked down and saw her daughter was bloodied.<\/p>\n

Kaori\u2019s father raced her to Woodhull Hospital about seven blocks away \u2014 dropping the little girl\u2019s blood-soaked pink bonnet in the street along the way \u2014 but she could not be saved.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are no words that can mend the heartbreak this family is feeling,\u201d Mayor Mamdani said at a press conference at the scene. \u201cA life that had barely begun was taken in an instant.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"AA bloody pink knit baby\u2019s bonnet in the crosswalk at Debevoise St. and Humboldt St. in Brooklyn after a 7-month-old girl was fatally shot on Wednesday. (Kerry Burke \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Vincent Valcassel, 63, who has lived in the neighborhood his entire life, was coming out of a nearby supermarket when he heard the gunfire.<\/p>\n

\u201cI ducked immediately,\u201d he said. \u201cThere was chaos, people screaming and running. A woman and a baby were on the floor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI heard a single gunshot,\u201d he added.\u00a0\u201cFrom what I\u2019ve heard, the woman wasn\u2019t the intended target. She was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. She got in the way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"KaoriKaori Patterson-Moore, a 7-month-old girl, was fatally shot near Humboldt and Moore Sts. in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (Courtesy of Lianna Moore)<\/p>\n

The shooter and his accomplice sped off on the scooter they were sharing north on Humboldt St., took a left on Siegel St. and then crashed at Manhattan Ave. three blocks from the scene, according to NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny.<\/p>\n

Both men were thrown from the scooter, with the rear passenger hitting the pavement so hard that he lost both shoes, Tisch said.<\/p>\n

Video posted online shows the suspects\u2019 scooter slamming into the front end of a sedan as they travel against traffic. The impact sends both men hurling to the pavement, and the shoeless rear passenger can be seen hobbling on one foot afterward, the footage shows.<\/p>\n

\"PolicePolice are searching for this suspect after a 7-month-old girl in a stroller was fatally shot near Humboldt and Moore Sts. in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Wednesday. (NYPD)<\/p>\n

The video ends as the driver retrieves what appears to be a firearm from the street, before both men climb back onto the scooter and ride off-screen.<\/p>\n

EMS alerted by a 911 call placed after the crash brought the injured rear passenger to Brooklyn Hospital Center, where he was taken into police custody for a domestic-violence-related robbery, according to Tisch.<\/p>\n

He was wearing the same clothing as the baby\u2019s caught-on-video shooter, Tisch said.<\/p>\n

\"PolicePolice investigate after a 7-month-old girl in a stroller was fatally shot near Humboldt and Moore Sts. in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Wednesday. (Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Charges against him related to the shooting were not immediately filed, and his name was not released. He is a known gang associate from NYCHA\u2019s Marcy Houses, police said.<\/p>\n

His accomplice, who was operating the scooter, fled toward the Marcy Houses and is now the subject of a massive NYPD manhunt, Tisch said.<\/p>\n

The NYPD released a surveillance image of the accomplice Wednesday evening and asked the public\u2019s help identifying him and tracking him down.<\/p>\n

\"PolicePolice secure the scene of an abandoned scooter on Warsoff Place near Park Ave. in Brooklyn on Wednesday after a child was shot approximately one mile away on Humboldt St. and Moore St. (Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Tisch said the shooting is believed to be gang-related and the baby was an unintended target.<\/p>\n

Little Kaori\u2019s tragic death occurred about two weeks after her father proposed to her mother, a neighbor told the Daily News.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey just got engaged,\u201d said Denee Phillips, 57, who lives across the hall from Kaori\u2019s mother\u2019s apartment in Clinton Hill. \u201cHe wanted to do the right thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TheThe shooter and his accomplice sped off north on Humboldt St., police sources said. The gunman has long hair and was wearing a light-colored hoodie while the other man had a dark-colored hoodie on. (Obtained by Daily News)<\/p>\n

Phillips said Kaori comes from a good family. Her grandparents on her mother\u2019s side are church pastors, while her mother and father both work to support their family, which also includes their 2-year-old son.<\/p>\n

\u201c[The baby\u2019s mother] is a quiet good girl,\u201d the neighbor said. \u201cShe and her baby\u2019s father take good care of their kids.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anyone with information on the shooting or the sought accomplice is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.<\/p>\n

With Cayla Bamberger and Nicholas Williams<\/p>\n

\"PolicePolice investigate after a 7-month-old girl in a stroller was fatally shot near Humboldt and Moore Sts. in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Wednesday. (Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News)
\n\"PolicePolice investigate after a 7-month-old girl in a stroller was fatally shot near Humboldt and Moore Sts. in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Wednesday. (Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News)
\n\"PolicePolice investigate after a 7-month-old girl in a stroller was fatally shot near Humboldt and Moore Sts. in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Wednesday. (Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News)
\n\"PolicePolice investigate after a 7-month-old girl in a stroller was fatally shot near Humboldt and Moore Sts. in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Wednesday. (Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 7-month-old girl in a stroller was killed by a stray bullet from a botched gang hit in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-183195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183195","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=183195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}