{"id":184518,"date":"2026-04-03T15:03:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/184518\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T15:03:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:03:34","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-i-forgive-them-grandmother-of-7-month-old-killed-by-stray-bullet-speaks-with-news-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/184518\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | &#8216;I forgive them.&#8217; Grandmother of 7-month-old killed by stray bullet speaks with News 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Linda Oyinkoinyan says her 7-month-old granddaughter, Kaori Patterson-Moore, was learning to walk and say words like &#8216;Mama&#8217; when her<a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/baby-killed-by-stray-bullet-in-bushwick-shooting-manhunt-underway\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> life was cut short on Wednesday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI miss you and love you. I\u2019m never, ever going to be able to shake this off,&#8221; said Oyinkoinyan.<\/p>\n<p>Police say one of two men on a moped fired shots into a crowd of people on Humboldt and Moore streets in Bushwick Wednesday, around 1:20 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Patterson-Moore was sitting in a stroller when she was struck in the head by a stray bullet.<\/p>\n<p>A family friend, Denee Phillips, says it&#8217;s heartbreaking and the community is sick of the violence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBullets don\u2019t have no name, they don\u2019t know who they supposed to hit,&#8221; said Phillips.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the baby\u2019s father rushed her to NYC Health + Hospitals\/Woodhull, but she did not survive.<\/p>\n<p>Oyinkoinyan tells News 12 the family almost lost two children that day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer brother that\u2019s 2 years old, he got hit too. He got grazed. He told me a few times that he&#8217;s not OK, Grandma. \u2018I&#8217;m not OK,\u2019&#8221; said Oyinkoinyan.<\/p>\n<p>Candles and stuffed animals sit where the shooting happened.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators believe the shooting was gang-related.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Haynes from the anti-violence group Tailor Made For a King says the violence needs to end.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s not gangster. Shooting someone that don&#8217;t have anything to do with what you&#8217;re doing isn&#8217;t gangster, that&#8217;s cowardly stuff,&#8221; said Haynes.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say they have identified the driver of the moped but have not released that person\u2019s name. That person is still being sought.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, I forgive them. I just want to God, I pray that God save them. We just want justice for Kaori,&#8221; said Oyinkoinyan.<\/p>\n<p>Police say they&#8217;re investigating the possibility that the bullet may have been intended for the baby&#8217;s father. <\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Linda Oyinkoinyan says her 7-month-old granddaughter, Kaori Patterson-Moore, was learning to walk and say words like &#8216;Mama&#8217; when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9449,2464,786,44727,13914,6809,9,24,63,1096,11650,3980,5422],"class_list":{"0":"post-184518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-bushwick","12":"tag-deadly-shooting","13":"tag-fatal-shooting","14":"tag-gang-assault","15":"tag-gang-members","16":"tag-gangs","17":"tag-new-york","18":"tag-new-york-city","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-shooting","21":"tag-shooting-victims","22":"tag-shootings","23":"tag-stray-bullet"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184518","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=184518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}