{"id":196172,"date":"2026-04-13T23:46:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T23:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196172\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T23:46:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T23:46:39","slug":"mother-of-7-month-old-slain-in-brooklyn-shooting-struggling-to-cope-as-family-lays-girl-to-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196172\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother of 7-month old slain in Brooklyn shooting struggling to cope as family lays girl to rest"},"content":{"rendered":"

The uncle of slain 7-month-old Kaori Patterson-Moore said the girl\u2019s mother is \u201cbreaking down all day every day,\u201c as the grief-stricken family laid the little girl to rest Monday.<\/p>\n

Kaori was fatally shot by a stray bullet while in her stroller<\/a> during a botched gang hit in Brooklyn last week in a killing that has sparked outrage across the city.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just trying to take care of her,\u201d said Michael Moore, brother to the girl\u2019s mom, 20-year-old Lianna Moore.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve done all my crying. I can\u2019t do it anymore.\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s senseless. This generation is wicked.\u201d<\/p>\n

More than 150 mourners gathered at the Lawrence H. Woodward Funeral Home in Bedford-Stuyvesant to pay respects to the family. A brass Minnie Mouse plaque on the casket displayed her name and read, \u201cOur Little Angel.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s devastating for our family,\u201c said Kaori\u2019s godfather, 50-year-old Rah Jennings, 50. \u201cYou don\u2019t expect this for anyone, but especially devastating when it\u2019s a baby.\u201c<\/p>\n

Rev. Al Sharpton was scheduled to deliver a eulogy at a service for the baby girl at the Cornerstone Baptist Church after the wake, but that was canceled and Sharpton instead made remarks inside the funeral home in a service that was closed to the press.<\/p>\n

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

Police believe the shooter may have been gunning for the tot\u2019s father, 22-year-old Jamari Patterson, but his bullet struck Kaori instead, then passed through her head and grazed her 2-year-old brother\u2019s back.<\/p>\n

\u201cHer little brother is sticking close to his father,\u201c Jennings said at the service Kaori. \u201cHe has no idea what\u2019s going on. He keeps saying the baby is sleeping.\u201c<\/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 Wednesday. 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

Lianna Moore earlier told the News that she and her fianc\u00e9 had taken their two young kids out to get baby supplies when she heard a sound, like fireworks, that caused her son to jump out of the stroller.<\/p>\n

The mom carried her son, Kaizen, who wept with fright as she wheeled her daughter into a nearby store. Moore was comforting the boy when she looked down and noticed something was wrong with her baby girl.<\/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

The little girl had recently taken her first steps<\/a> and said her first word, \u201cmama,\u201d when she was killed, her grandmother said.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was loving. She was caring. She had a beautiful spirit,\u201d said Linda Oyinkoinyan. \u201cShe was always laughing, always smiling. She just learned how to say \u2018mama\u2019. She just took her first steps at 7 months. She was very smart. The baby was very beautiful.\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

\"Kaori<\/p>\n

Courtesy of Lianna Moore<\/p>\n

Kaori Patterson-Moore, a 7-month-old girl, was fatally shot near Humboldt and Moore Sts. in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Wednesday. (Courtesy of Lianna Moore)<\/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. 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

After a vigil near the scene of the shooting last week, Kaori\u2019s dad\u00a0released a letter to the media<\/a> in which he described his \u201cunbearable pain\u201d at the loss of his daughter and said he became determined to turn his life around after Kaori was born.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The uncle of slain 7-month-old Kaori Patterson-Moore said the girl\u2019s mother is \u201cbreaking down all day every day,\u201c…\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-196172","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\/196172","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=196172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196172\/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=196172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}