{"id":187488,"date":"2026-04-06T19:34:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/187488\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T19:34:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:34:06","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-sources-alleged-bushwick-shooter-claims-bullet-that-killed-baby-was-meant-for-her-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/187488\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Sources: Alleged Bushwick shooter claims bullet that killed baby was meant for her father"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The alleged shooter in a possible gang-related shooting that <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/baby-killed-by-stray-bullet-in-bushwick-shooting-manhunt-underway\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">killed a baby in Bushwick<\/a> claims he meant to strike her father, sources close to the investigation say.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say 7-month-old Kaori Patterson-Moore\u2019s father has an affiliation with members of the Money Over Everything gang, which is based out of the Bushwick Houses. Amuri Greene, the alleged shooter, is known to be a &#8220;gang associate&#8221; from the NYCHA Marcy Houses.<\/p>\n<p>Moore and her 2-year-old brother were accompanied by their parents when the violence unfolded near Humboldt and Moore streets around 1:20 p.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/man-charged-in-deadly-bushwick-shooting-of-7-month-old-second-suspect-caught-in-pennsylvania\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Greene and Matthew Rodriguez<\/a> allegedly rode a moped up to the corner, where Greene, riding on the rear of the moped, allegedly fired at least two rounds into a crowd where at least two occupied strollers stood.<\/p>\n<p>The baby was struck in the head, and her father ran her to five blocks to NYC Health + Hospitals\/Woodhull, where she died. Her brother was grazed in the back and is expected to recover.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say Greene, 21, faced a judge for the first time Thursday and faces three counts of murder, attempted murder, two counts of criminal possession of a weapon and two counts of assault.<\/p>\n<p>Greene was hospitalized and taken into custody after the duo\u2019s moped crashed into an oncoming car near Siegel Street and Manhattan Avenue while attempting to flee the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez, 18, the alleged moped driver, was captured Friday in Pennsylvania and will be extradited to New York City to face charges, authorities say.<\/p>\n<p>Moore\u2019s grandmother, Christina Poitier, spoke out about the tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis should have never happened,\u201d said Poitier. \u201cThere should\u2019ve never been a shooting where a baby is being killed as an innocent bystander.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The reason the duo was targeting Greene\u2019s father remains unclear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The alleged shooter in a possible gang-related shooting that killed a baby in Bushwick claims he meant to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[73651,73652,98,100,99,9449,13914,9,24,63,103,5422],"class_list":{"0":"post-187488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-baby-killed","9":"tag-baby-shot","10":"tag-brooklyn","11":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","12":"tag-brooklyn-news","13":"tag-bushwick","14":"tag-gang-members","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-nypd","19":"tag-stray-bullet"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187488","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=187488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}