{"id":198554,"date":"2026-04-15T21:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/198554\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T21:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T21:08:08","slug":"brooklyn-man-pleads-not-guilty-in-shooting-that-killed-7-month-old-in-stroller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/198554\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn man pleads not guilty in shooting that killed 7-month-old in stroller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"sbpcz\">The man accused of shooting and killing a 7-month-old baby in Brooklyn earlier this month pleaded not guilty Wednesday to murder and other charges.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"a108l\">Amuri Greene, 21, was arraigned in Brooklyn Supreme Court for the fatal <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/7-month-old-girl-in-stroller-fatally-shot-in-williamsburg-brooklyn-nypd-says\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">shooting<\/a> of Kaori Patterson-Moore, who prosecutors said was in a stroller with her parents and brother in East Williamsburg when she was struck.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"atc83\">Prosecutors said Greene fired multiple times from the back of a moped driven by 18-year-old Mathew Rodriguez, hitting Patterson-Moore and grazing her 2-year-old brother near Humboldt and Moore streets on the afternoon of April 1.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"76j3m\">Greene hobbled into court on wooden crutches and kept his head down for much of the brief proceeding.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"2k5d4\">Police said Rodriguez and Greene fled the scene on the moped and <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/police-searching-for-2nd-suspect-in-fatal-shooting-of-7-month-old-brooklyn-girl-in-stroller\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">crashed<\/a> into an oncoming car a few blocks away, leaving Greene with leg injuries.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"3h23i\">Assistant District Attorney Christopher Mirabella said in court that Greene gave EMTs a fake name in the ambulance after he and Rodriguez collided with another car as they fled the shooting.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"ciqrg\">After the crash, according to prosecutors, Rodriguez picked up the gun, dropped Greene off at the New York City Housing Authority\u2019s Marcy Houses in Bedford-Stuyvesant, then abandoned the moped and tampered with its license plate.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"4ndqp\">Greene was taken to the hospital and placed in custody after someone called 911 about the crash, officials said.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"cgnu2\">Judge Danny Chun ordered Greene held without bail.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"1loq4\">Greene\u2019s lawyer, Jay Schweitzer, declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"1ovqu\">Outside the courtroom on Wednesday, Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez said the infant was not the intended target but declined to say whether the shooting was gang-motivated.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"6brt2\">\u201cThe motive is pretty clear,\u201d he said. \u201cThey were looking to shoot at a person. They missed and hit the baby in her stroller, and also injured her brother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"6t01r\">Greene and Rodriguez are charged with acting in concert to cause Patterson-Moore\u2019s death. They face three counts of second-degree murder, as well as attempted murder, assault, criminal use of a firearm, weapons possession and child endangerment charges. If convicted on the top counts, they could face life in prison.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"bm0l2\">Rodriguez was extradited from Pennsylvania to New York City, where he was <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/multiple-murder-charges-for-man-accused-of-shooting-baby-girl-in-brooklyn\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">arrested<\/a> by NYPD detectives assigned to the U.S. Marshals Regional Fugitive Task Force after a search. A grand jury indicted him and Greene last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man accused of shooting and killing a 7-month-old baby in Brooklyn earlier this month pleaded not guilty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-198554","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\/198554","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=198554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}