Mathew Rodriguez was indicted on multiple charges that include murder, assault and hindering prosecution for the fatal shooting of Kaori Patterson-Moore on April 1. His co-conspirator, Amuri Greene, is expected to be charged today.<\/p>\n
A Brooklyn man on Tuesday was indicted with murder, assault and other charges in connection with the fatal shooting of a 7-month-old baby in Williamsburg earlier this month.<\/p>\n
Mathew Rodriguez, 18, was charged with three counts of second-degree murder, second-degree attempted murder, second-degree assault, two counts of first-degree criminal use of a firearm, two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, criminal possession of a firearm, first-degree reckless endangerment, three counts of endangering the welfare of a child, tampering with physical evidence, first-degree hindering prosecution and second-degree hindering prosecution, according to Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez.\u00a0<\/p>\n
His co-defendant, Amuri Greene, 21, also of Brooklyn, is expected to be arraigned on the same indictment today.<\/p>\n
According to the investigation, on April 1, 2026, at approximately 1:15pm, near the corner of Humboldt Street and Moore Street in East Williamsburg,\u00a0the defendants allegedly rode on a moped with Rodriguez driving and Greene as a passenger. As the defendants approached a group of adults and children gathered on the street, Greene allegedly pulled out a handgun and fired multiple times into the crowd, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n
As a result of the shooting, a 7-month-old Kaori Patterson-Moore, who was seated in a stroller, was struck in the head by a bullet and died from her injuries. Her two-year-old brother was grazed by a bullet in the back and survived.<\/p>\n
The investigation revealed that the defendants fled the scene on the moped, which struck a vehicle while going the wrong way on a one-way street and crashed a few blocks from the scene of the shooting. Greene was apprehended shortly thereafter, and Rodriguez was later arrested in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn a beautiful spring day, this senseless act of gun violence took the life of an innocent baby, traumatized a family and shook an entire community,” Gonzalez said in a statement. “Little Kaori was killed, and her two-year-old brother was wounded \u2014 all because of a decision to settle a dispute with gunfire, with no regard for who might be harmed. With homicides in Brooklyn at a record low, this is exactly the kind of violence that we must fight against and never accept. We are determined to hold these defendants fully accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mathew Rodriguez was indicted on multiple charges that include murder, assault and hindering prosecution for the fatal shooting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,78927,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-198049","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-kaori-patterson-mooremathew-rodriguezamuri-greene","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198049","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=198049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}