{"id":197789,"date":"2026-04-15T08:40:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/197789\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T08:40:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:40:53","slug":"18-year-old-faces-multiple-charges-after-babys-murder-in-brooklyn-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/197789\/","title":{"rendered":"18-year-old faces multiple charges after baby\u2019s murder in Brooklyn \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, 18-year-old Matthew Rodriguez faced several charges, including murder, in connection with the killing of seven-month-old Kaori Patterson-Moore in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

“It wasn’t my fault, I didn’t pull the trigger,” Rodriguez told reporters, his head bowed.<\/p>\n

He is one of two suspects charged with the murder of seven-month-old Kaori Patterson-Moore.<\/p>\n

Rodriguez, 18, faces several charges, including murder and attempted murder.<\/p>\n

Authorities say Rodriguez was driving the scooter on which 21-year-old Amuri Greene was also riding when Greene opened fire.<\/p>\n

Rodriguez appeared in court a day after the funeral of Patterson-Moore<\/a>, who died from a stray bullet.<\/p>\n

Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said it was heartbreaking to have to bury a baby.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery day a new theory emerges about why this happened, but what we must focus on is getting these guns off the streets,\u201d the prosecutor said.<\/p>\n

According to Gonz\u00e1lez, his office will make an announcement on Wednesday regarding intervention efforts to curb gun violence among young people.<\/p>\n

Wednesday will also be another key day in court, as Amuri Greene will be formally charged.<\/p>\n

The investigation revealed that the defendants fled the scene on a scooter, which collided with a vehicle while traveling the wrong way on a one-way street and crashed a few blocks from the shooting site. Greene was apprehended shortly afterward, and Rodr\u00edguez was later arrested in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Tuesday, 18-year-old Matthew Rodriguez faced several charges, including murder, in connection with the killing of seven-month-old Kaori…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-197789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197789","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=197789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}