{"id":189608,"date":"2026-04-08T14:38:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T14:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189608\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T14:38:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T14:38:35","slug":"accused-gunman-in-brooklyn-baby-stray-bullet-slay-was-seeking-revenge-for-prior-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189608\/","title":{"rendered":"Accused gunman in Brooklyn baby stray bullet slay was seeking revenge for prior shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

The accused gunman in the botched Brooklyn daylight gang hit that killed 7-month-old Kaori Patterson-Moore<\/a> with a stray bullet told cops he was seeking revenge for a prior shooting when he opened fire, police sources said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

When he confessed to police, Amuri Greene<\/a>, 21, said the April 1 shooting near Moore and Humboldt Sts. in East Williamsburg was payback for a shooting involving a friend. He didn\u2019t elaborate on when or where that shooting took place, the sources said.<\/p>\n

The NYPD is preparing to extradite from Pennsylvania Matthew Rodriguez, Greene\u2019s accused accomplice, who was allegedly operating the scooter the gunman was riding on the back of when shots rang out.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe NYPD released surveillance footage of the gunman and his accomplice in the stray bullet shooting of a 7-month-old girl in a stroller near Humboldt and Moore Sts. in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on April 1st. (NYPD)<\/p>\n

Rodriguez, 18, was caught in Monroe County, Pa., on Friday and waived his extradition during a brief court appearance there Monday. He\u2019s expected to be returned to New York in the coming days.<\/p>\n

Greene and Rodriguez have been indicted on a raft of criminal charges including murder, attempted murder, and assault.<\/p>\n

During their harried getaway, Rodriguez crashed the scooter a few blocks away. Greene suffered a broken leg in the crash and was quickly arrested.<\/p>\n

\"AA candle memorial for Kaori Patterson-Moore outside an apartment building on Moore St. in Brooklyn. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Though Greene told police he was gunning for the girl\u2019s dad, according to prosecutors at his initial arraignment last week \u2014 something Kaori\u2019s mother vehemently denies<\/a> \u2014 Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez partially walked that back Tuesday when announcing grand jury indictments against the two suspects.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am not prepared to say today definitively that the father was the target. We know that he was intending to shoot a person in that crowd, and the baby\u2019s father was among those people in that crowd,\u201d Gonzalez told reporters. \u201cBut I don\u2019t think it\u2019s completely 100 percent clear to me that this was in fact the person they were shooting that and that they knew who he was.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The accused gunman in the botched Brooklyn daylight gang hit that killed 7-month-old Kaori Patterson-Moore with a stray…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-189608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189608","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=189608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}