arrested by NYPD detectives<\/a> assigned to the U.S. Marshals Regional Fugitive Task Force after a massive manhunt, according to police. The NYPD said he is being charged with murder, attempted murder, criminal weapons possession, assault, hindering prosecution and tampering with a witness in Patterson-Moore\u2019s death. Authorities said he was extradited to New York City on Monday after being indicted by a grand jury last week.<\/p>\nAttorney information for Rodriguez was not immediately available.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday morning, Patterson-Moore\u2019s small pink casket was loaded into a glass horse-drawn carriage for a funeral procession starting at the Lafayette Gardens public housing complex, where she lived. Her mother, father and 2-year-old brother climbed into a black hearse behind the carriage as friends and community members watched in tears.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u200aI’m hurt, I’m scared for my own child. It’s so much,\u201d said neighbor Cierra Harrell, who clutched her 5-year-old daughter Torrence as they watched the casket go by. \u201cShe’s been by my side all day, all night, like, \u2018Mommy, you OK?\u2019 Mommy’s OK. Mommy’s just worried about our future.\u201d<\/p>\n
Isaiah Greats, a friend of Patterson-Moore\u2019s parents, said he hoped the procession would make people stop and think about the grim toll of the violence that took her life.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat’s not a normal size casket to be in there. So it’s like you see that walk by, it’s automatically going to catch your attention,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s just going to hit harder.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Monday evening, dozens of relatives, friends and community leaders paid their respects to Patterson-Moore at a funeral home in Bed-Stuy as her body lay in a pink outfit in the open coffin at the front of the room. Pink balloons and posters of Minnie Mouse flanked the setup, and many of the mourners wore pink in her honor.<\/p>\n
Rah Jennings, a close family friend, said the baby\u2019s family has been struggling to process her loss. He said Patterson-Moore\u2019s brother, who is 2 years old and was grazed in the shooting, \u201cjust keeps saying, \u2018the baby is sleeping.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Tanya Moronta, a neighbor from the building where Patterson-Moore\u2019s father lives, brought four pink plastic chairs she said she had decorated for the girl\u2019s mother, grandmothers and great-grandmother.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese are Kaori\u2019s heaven chairs,\u201d Moronta said, noting one of them featured a light that would shine to remind the infant\u2019s family of her. \u201cShe\u2019s a star. And she should be here standing with us right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez, who is prosecuting the case, was spotted walking into the funeral home. Rev. Al Sharpton addressed the grieving family inside before coming out to speak briefly to reporters.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you can look at a coffin that doesn\u2019t even need pallbearers and that doesn\u2019t shake you in your heart and in your life, then something\u2019s numb about you, and we cannot have a numb community,\u201d Sharpton said. \u201cWe must turn this tragedy into a wake up call in our own community by really starting again, patrolling and talking to our young people.\u201d<\/p>\n
This story is based on preliminary information from law enforcement officials and has been updated with additional information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The two men accused of shooting and killing a 7-month-old baby in Brooklyn earlier this month are set…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-196991","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-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196991","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=196991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}