\u201cWe thought it was fireworks, but my son jumped out of the stroller, and I picked him up and carried him,\u201d Lianna told the outlet.<\/p>\n
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The noise turned out to be gunshots fired by a passenger on the back of a moped, authorities say, and when Lianna pulled back the double stroller\u2019s visor to check on Kaori, she saw the tragic tot was wounded, her tiny pink hat soaked with blood.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy daughter was just there, lying there. She was shot in the head. She was just bleeding. It was just too much,\u201d says Lianna, who also reveals that her young son was grazed on the back by a bullet \u2014 and keeps asking for his little sister.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy daughter was innocent. She didn\u2019t deserve that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The afternoon incident was described as possibly gang-related. The New York City Police Department says the thug opened fire into a crowd before the moped\u2019s driver sped off and that Kaori was not the intended target. Lianna has reportedly denied suggestions that the gunman was after Jamari<\/a>.<\/p>\n NYPD\/ DCPI<\/p>\n Investigators say the bike crashed into an oncoming car just two blocks from the crime scene and that the moped driver fled, leaving the injured passenger behind, according to the Post. The wounded man, who cops identified as Amuri Greene<\/a>, 21, was brought to a hospital and arrested. Greene has pleaded not guilty to murder, attempted murder, assault and weapon possession and is being held without bail.<\/p>\n According to the Washington Post<\/a>, a second suspect \u2014 18-year-old Matthew Rodriguez \u2014 was apprehended in Pennsylvania by NYPD detectives working with U.S. marshals, according to authorities. Officials say Rodriguez is expected to be returned to Brooklyn to face murder charges.<\/p>\n The grieving mom says, \u201cI want justice.\u201d<\/p>\n This story 7-Month-Old Baby, Who Had Just Learned to Say \u2018Mama,\u2019 Killed After Being Struck by Stray Bullet in NYC<\/a> first appeared on Globe<\/a>. Add Globe as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bubbly baby girl, who\u2019d just learned to say \u201cmama,\u201d was fatally shot in the head by a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[75066,80646,80647,9,24,4330,56,63,65,64,5422],"class_list":{"0":"post-203845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-jamari-patterson","9":"tag-kaori","10":"tag-lianna","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-post","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-nyc-headlines","17":"tag-nyc-news","18":"tag-stray-bullet"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203845","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=203845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/b73e1b30d1ad9957c1c638a8fd6c0bb8.jpeg\"\/)
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