{"id":185269,"date":"2026-04-04T07:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T07:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185269\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T07:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T07:42:15","slug":"second-thug-accused-of-gunning-down-7-month-old-in-horror-nyc-drive-by-shooting-nabbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185269\/","title":{"rendered":"Second thug accused of gunning down 7-month-old in horror NYC drive-by shooting nabbed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A second suspect in the fatal shooting of a<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=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a07-month-old baby girl in Brooklyn<\/a>\u00a0has been arrested\u00a0following\u00a0a days-long manhunt, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Rodriguez, 18, was nabbed in Pennsylvania on Friday after a US Marshals fugitive task force with assigned NYPD cops got information that he hopped from the Big Apple, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance footages shows the moment the thugs on a moped drove by the victim. Obtained by NY Post<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez\u00a0allegedly drove a moped Wednesday carting a gunman \u2013 Amuri Greene, 21, police contend \u2013 opened fire at the corner of Humboldt and Moore streets in Bushwick.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/02\/us-news\/video-shows-heart-wrenching-moment-nyc-mom-realizes-her-baby-daughter-was-shot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Stray bullets hit 7-month-old Kaori Patterson and her 2-year-old brother<\/a>, police said. Kaori died in the shooting, while her brother suffered graze wound to his back.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/03\/us-news\/thug-accused-of-killing-kaori-patterson-in-nyc-shooting-is-charged-with-murder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Greene faces a murder charge<\/a>\u00a0in the horrific shooting.\u00a0He was arrested after he showed up to a Brooklyn hospital with a broken leg, apparently suffered when his accomplice\u2019s moped collided with an oncoming car during the getaway, police said.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SECOND SUSPECT ARRESTED: Matthew Rodriguez, 18, has been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of the 7-month-old baby on Wednesday, April, 1. He was taken into custody in Pennsylvania by NYPD Detectives assigned to the US Marshals Regional Fugitive Task Force. Charges\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K5jt6Et46M\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/K5jt6Et46M<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYPDnews\/status\/2040199879960502472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 3, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sources said they were allegedly targeting the slain tot\u2019s father, who was walking nearby.<\/p>\n<p>The moped\u2019s driver eluded capture for two days as the NYPD mounted a manhunt.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Family members remembered Kaori as a bubbly baby who was \u201calways laughing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The two perps involved in the fatal shooting. via REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>7-month-old Kaori Patterson-Moore was fatally shot dead in her stroller by a stray bullet.<\/p>\n<p>His days in the wind ended after US Marshals and their NYPD officer received a lead he was in the Bronx, sources said. Investigators then traced him from the Boogie Down to the Keystone State, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p>NYPD detectives assigned to the task force took Rodriguez into custody in Pennsylvania, police <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NYPDnews\/status\/2040199879960502472?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced in an X post.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Charges against Rodriguez are pending.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A second suspect in the fatal shooting of a\u00a07-month-old baby girl in Brooklyn\u00a0has been arrested\u00a0following\u00a0a days-long manhunt, cops&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185270,"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-185269","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\/185269","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=185269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}