{"id":193591,"date":"2026-04-11T19:19:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T19:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/193591\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T19:19:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T19:19:41","slug":"funeral-set-for-brooklyn-baby-killed-by-stray-bullet-rev-sharpton-to-give-eulogy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/193591\/","title":{"rendered":"Funeral set for Brooklyn baby killed by stray bullet; Rev. Sharpton to give eulogy"},"content":{"rendered":"

A funeral for Kaori Patterson-Moore, the 7-month-old baby girl killed by a stray bullet in botched Brooklyn gang hit<\/a>, has been set for Monday, with Rev. Al Sharpton to give the eulogy, officials said.<\/p>\n

The \u201chomegoing\u201d service for the infant will be at Cornerstone Baptist Church on Madison St. in Bedford-Stuyvesant, organizers said.<\/p>\n

Kaori was sitting in her stroller on April 1 when a gunman riding on the back of a moped opened fire on her family at the corner of Humboldt and Moore Sts. in East Williamsburg about 1:20 p.m., cops said.<\/p>\n

\"PolicePolice investigate (main) after a 7-month-old girl in a stroller was fatally shot near Humboldt and Moore Sts. in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on April 1. The suspects are pictured (top inset), and a bloody pink knit baby\u2019s bonnet is pictured on the ground near the scene. (Gardiner Anderson; Kerry Burke \/ New York Daily News; Obtained by NYDN)<\/p>\n

The stray bullet went through Kaori\u2019s head and grazed her 2-year-old brother\u2019s back. Another passerby suffered a minor injury after being struck with a bullet fragment that struck a wall.<\/p>\n

Grieving family members said Kaori had just taken her first step and had said her first word<\/a>, \u201cMama,\u201d in the days before her death.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy daughter, she was innocent. She was happy. She was always laughing,\u201d the girl\u2019s heartbroken mother, 20-year-old Lianna Moore, told The News following the shooting. \u201cShe didn\u2019t deserve that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"LiannaLianna Moore (pictured), mother of Kaori Patterson-Moore.<\/p>\n

The National Action Network confirmed Saturday that Rev. Sharpton will perform the eulogy.<\/p>\n

\u201cHer death has sent shockwaves through Brooklyn and across the city and has reignited urgent calls for an end to the gun violence that continues to claim the lives of innocent children,\u201d a spokesman for NAN said. \u201cRev. Sharpton stands with the family of this precious child and with every family that has had to bury a son or daughter taken too soon by senseless gun violence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Police said that the shooting was part of an ongoing gang beef between a gang that operates in the Bushwick Houses and another crew known as Money Over Everything.<\/p>\n

The accused gunman, Amuri Greene, 21, and the moped driver, Matthew Rodriguez, 18, crashed shortly after the shooting. Greene, who broke his leg in the crash, was taken to the hospital and arrested.<\/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 Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (NYPD)<\/p>\n

Rodriguez was caught a few days later in Pennsylvania and is expected to be returned to New York in the coming days, cops said.<\/p>\n

While being questioned by police, Greene claimed he was aiming at Kaori\u2019s father, and was seeking revenge for a prior shooting when he opened fire. But it wasn\u2019t clear if Greene or the tot\u2019s dad were involved in the alleged earlier shooting.<\/p>\n

Greene has ties to Money Over Everything, which operates out of the Marcy Houses, police said.<\/p>\n

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

\"KaoriKaori Patterson-Moore, a 7-month-old girl, was fatally shot near Humboldt and Moore Sts. in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on April 1. (Courtesy of Lianna Moore)<\/p>\n

Kaori\u2019s mother vehemently denied that her fianc\u00e9 was the target<\/a>, and 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,\u201d Gonzalez told reporters. \u201cWe know that he was intending to shoot a person in that crowd, and the baby\u2019s father was among those people in that crowd. But I don\u2019t think it\u2019s completely 100% clear to me that this was, in fact, the person they were shooting at and that they knew who he was.\u201d<\/p>\n

After a vigil near the scene of the shooting last week, Kaori\u2019s dad released a letter to the media<\/a>. Describing his anguish over the devastating loss of his daughter, he called it an \u201cunbearable pain\u201d and said that Kaori was one of his \u201cgreatest achievements in life.\u201d He said that after Kaori\u2019s birth, he had been determined to turn his life around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A funeral for Kaori Patterson-Moore, the 7-month-old baby girl killed by a stray bullet in botched Brooklyn gang…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184691,"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":{"0":"post-193591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-city","12":"tag-county","13":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","14":"tag-latest-headlines","15":"tag-local-news","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-new-york-county","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-nyc-crime","22":"tag-sub-county-region"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193591","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=193591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}