A 7-month-old girl was shot and killed in Brooklyn Wednesday afternoon, the NYPD said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The shooting happened near Humboldt and Moore streets in Williamsburg around 1:20 p.m., police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The baby was taken to NYC Health + Hospitals\/Woodhull after the shooting, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Law enforcement sources said police are searching for two suspects who fled on a scooter.<\/p>\n
Asked about the baby\u2019s death Wednesday afternoon, Mayor Zohran Mamdani called the incident \u201ca tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOur heart breaks for this family,\u201d Mamdani said.<\/p>\n
The mayor said he and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch will hold a briefing on the shooting later in the day.<\/p>\n
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 7-month-old girl was shot and killed in Brooklyn Wednesday afternoon, the NYPD said.\u00a0 The shooting happened near…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[133910,6324,2722,4,450,7567,3071,451,1999,3,4752,7739,452,453],"class_list":["post-558859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-app-crime","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-top-stories","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-brooklyn","tag-crime","tag-headlines","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-public-safety","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}