{"id":185303,"date":"2026-04-04T08:24:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T08:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185303\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T08:24:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T08:24:28","slug":"injured-man-21-who-turned-up-at-nyc-hospital-is-charged-with-fatal-shooting-of-baby-girl-that-stunned-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185303\/","title":{"rendered":"Injured man, 21, who turned up at NYC hospital is charged with fatal shooting of baby girl that stunned America"},"content":{"rendered":"

The gunman who allegedly shot and killed a seven-month-old baby girl in broad daylight on a New York City<\/a> street has been arrested on murder charges, cops said.<\/p>\n

Amuri Greene, 21, has been identified by the NYPD as the man who was riding on the back of a moped when he opened fire and struck the infant on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The baby, Kaori, was being pushed in a stroller near Humboldt and Moore Street in the East Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn when gunshots suddenly rang out.<\/p>\n

Her 20-year-old mother, Lianna Charles-Moore, ran into a nearby bodega<\/a> when she\u00a0pulled back the stroller’s visor to find that Kaori suffered a fatal head wound.<\/p>\n

Kaori was rushed to the hospital but was tragically pronounced dead<\/a> just 20 minutes after the shooting.<\/p>\n

Police say Greene and the unidentified moped driver sped off<\/a>, but crashed into an oncoming car just two blocks from the scene, throwing one of the suspects so hard that his shoes flew off his feet.<\/p>\n

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch revealed on Thursday that Greene, who is currently in the hospital, sought medical care shortly after the shooting and is now being charged with Kaori’s murder.<\/p>\n

‘A 21-year-old male, Amuri Greene, the trigger puller, who is currently in the hospital, will be arrested and charged with murder and two counts of attempted murder,’ Tisch said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Amuri <\/p>\n

Amuri Greene, 21, has been identified by the NYPD as the man riding on the back of a moped when he opened fire and killed an infant on Wednesday<\/p>\n

\"NYPD <\/p>\n

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch announced on Thursday that Greene has been charged\u00a0with murder and two counts of attempted murder<\/p>\n

‘A seven-month-old child was shot and killed, caught in an act of violence on a sidewalk where she should have been safe.’<\/p>\n

Tisch noted that police have identified the second suspect, but are not releasing his name to the public.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘We have also identified the driver of the scooter, but I will not be releasing his name at this time,’ she said.<\/p>\n

Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said that investigators believe the shooting was gang-related.<\/p>\n

‘Amuri Greene has no arrest history in New York City,’\u00a0he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘We know that he is a gang associate out of the Marcy houses, and at this point right now there is a gang in the Bushwick houses called MOE, and we’re looking to see the possible connection between a beef between the Marcy houses and Bushwick houses.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kenny also noted that police are investigating whether Kaori’s father was the intended target of the shooting.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘We know that he does have an association with some other MOE gang members,’ Kenny said of the baby’s father.<\/p>\n

‘He is not in our criminal group database as an MOE\u00a0gang member, but based on the geography and where he was at that time, we’re looking into that aspect.’<\/p>\n

\"Seven-month-old <\/p>\n

Seven-month-old baby girl, Kaori, was being pushed in a stroller when the gunfire broke out and she was fatally struck in the head<\/p>\n

\"Tisch <\/p>\n

Tisch noted that police have identified the second suspect (pictured) who was driving the moped, but are not releasing his name to the public<\/p>\n

Horrific surveillance footage captured the moment\u00a0Charles-Moore realized her baby had been shot dead by a stray bullet.<\/p>\n

The family said they initially believed the shots were fireworks being set off, but police said the gunshots were fired by two moped-riding men who sprayed bullets on the street.<\/p>\n

Charles-Moore and her family stood by as the barrage stopped, then pulled back the stroller’s visor to find blood dripping from her baby’s head.<\/p>\n

The devastated mother then jumped up and down and put her hands to her head as she agonized over the sight of her baby.<\/p>\n

Charles-Moore told the New York Post that she was hugging her son in the seconds before seeing her daughter, and recalled: ‘When I looked to my left, my daughter was just there, lying there. She was shot in the head. She was just bleeding. It was just too much.’<\/p>\n

She said that Kaori had just learned how to say ‘mama,’ and that Kaori’s brother was grazed by the bullet on his back, and he has been asking for his sister ever since the fateful shooting.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The gunman who allegedly shot and killed a seven-month-old baby girl in broad daylight on a New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[818,9,12,56,63,65,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-185303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-dailymail","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-ny","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-nyc-headlines","14":"tag-nyc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185303","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=185303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}