{"id":189152,"date":"2026-04-08T03:30:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T03:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189152\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T03:30:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T03:30:32","slug":"two-men-indicted-in-7-month-old-girls-shooting-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189152\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men indicted in 7-month-old girl\u2019s shooting death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men have been indicted in connection with a shooting that killed a 7-month-old girl in Brooklyn last week, prosecutors say.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A grand jury on Tuesday indicted 21-year-old Amuri Greene and 18-year-old Matthew Rodriguez on second-degree murder in connection to <a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/news\/2026\/04\/04\/vigils-for-7-month-old-baby-killed-in-shooting-to-be-held-in-brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kaori Patterson-Moore\u2019s death<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What You Need To Know<\/p>\n<p>A grand jury on Tuesday indicted 21-year-old Amuri Greene and 18-year-old Matthew Rodriguez on second-degree murder in connection to Kaori Patterson-Moore\u2019s death<br \/>\n<br \/>Prosecutors said they believe Patterson-Moore was not the intended target when Greene, riding on a moped driven by Rodriguez, allegedly fired a gun toward the baby, her parents and at least two other children in broad daylight in Williamsburg on April 1<br \/>\n<br \/>Greene\u2019s attorney appeared on his behalf in Brooklyn Supreme Court on Tuesday waiving any requests for bail<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said they believe Patterson-Moore was not the intended target when Greene, riding on a moped driven by Rodriguez, allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/brooklyn\/news\/2026\/04\/01\/baby-shot-and-killed-williamsburg-brooklyn-nypd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">fired a gun toward the baby<\/a>, her parents and at least two other children in broad daylight in Williamsburg on April 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After the two men were indicted Tuesday, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez spoke to reporters about the case.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not only was a 7-month-old girl stolen from us, but she was not the intended target when these gunmen driving by on a scooter recklessly shot into a crowd intending to kill another person,\u201d Gonzalez said. \u201cThey will be held fully accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Greene\u2019s attorney appeared on his behalf in Brooklyn Supreme Court on Tuesday, waiving any requests for bail.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/news\/2026\/04\/03\/man-charged-with-murder-in-shooting-death-of-7-month-old-baby-in-brooklyn--nypd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Greene<\/a> faces three counts of second-degree murder, one count of attempted murder, first-degree reckless endangerment, three counts of endangering the welfare of a child and several weapons charges, according to prosecutors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He pleaded not guilty to the DA\u2019s charges last week, but has not yet entered a plea on the grand jury indictment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez remains in custody in Pennsylvania, where <a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/brooklyn\/news\/2026\/04\/03\/second-suspect-arrested-in-shooting-death-of-7-month-old-baby-in-brooklyn--nypd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">he was arrested<\/a> after the shooting. The DA\u2019s office said he also faces the top charge of second-degree murder.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said the two suspects fled the scene on the moped. <a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/news\/2026\/04\/02\/murder-charge-7-month-old-girl-shooting-death-williamsburg-brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Greene<\/a> was arrested the day after the shooting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The DA expects Rodriguez to be extradited from Pennsylvania by next week and to be arraigned in Brooklyn Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Greene is due back in court in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men have been indicted in connection with a shooting that killed a 7-month-old girl in Brooklyn last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[10015,387,25,98,100,99,303,9,24,12,26,63,308,380,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-189152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-app-crime","9":"tag-app-public-safety","10":"tag-app-top-stories","11":"tag-brooklyn","12":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","13":"tag-brooklyn-news","14":"tag-crime","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-nia-clark","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-public-safety","21":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189152","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=189152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}