{"id":183913,"date":"2026-04-02T22:35:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/183913\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T22:35:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:35:19","slug":"moped-riding-goons-who-shot-killed-7-month-old-in-nyc-horror-were-aiming-for-her-dad-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/183913\/","title":{"rendered":"Moped-riding goons who shot, killed 7-month old in NYC horror were aiming for her dad: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/02\/us-news\/video-shows-fleeing-suspects-crashing-moped-after-7-month-old-is-struck-by-stray-bullet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The moped-riding goons who shot a 7-month-old Brooklyn girl<\/a>\u00a0to death in her stroller were aiming for her dad, law enforcement sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Little Kaori Patterson\u2019s father, Jamari Patterson, 22, was apparently <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/02\/us-news\/person-of-interest-in-senseless-shooting-death-of-7-month-old-nyc-tot-to-face-murder-charge-cops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">targeted in the brazen Wednesday afternoon hit <\/a>over a social media beef with a crew from a rival housing project, investigators now believe,\u00a0 the sources said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.75;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38976014\" width=\"443\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/7-month-old-girl-shot-124866620_9351db.jpg\" alt=\"A 7-month-old girl with dark curly hair and a light blue onesie sits facing the camera, her mouth smeared with food, holding a piece of food in her hands.\" class=\"wp-image-38976014\"  \/>7-month-old Karoi Patterson Moore was shot dead in her stroller by a stray bullet while walking with her parents in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>The gunmen missed Patterson but struck the helpless tot in the head with the bullet, which then grazed her 2-year-old brother\u2019s back before the thugs sped off and crashed their moped two blocks away.<\/p>\n<p>Alleged shooter Amuri Greene, 21, ended up in the hospital, where he was identified as a person of interest in the baby\u2019s death \u2014 with NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch saying Thursday he would face murder charges.<\/p>\n<p>Greene remained hospitalized Thursday and has not been charged.<\/p>\n<p>Tisch said a \u201cmassive NYPD manhunt\u201d had been launched to track down the driver of the moped, who fled the scene and is on the lam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The moped-riding goons who shot a 7-month-old Brooklyn girl\u00a0to death in her stroller were aiming for her dad,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[98,4207,57,9,56,63,65,64,3980,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-183913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-children","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-news","16":"tag-shootings","17":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183913","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=183913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}