WILLIAMSBURG — A person suspected of shooting and killing a 7-month-old child in a stroller Wednesday afternoon shall be charged with homicide, and police are in search of a second suspect, New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch mentioned at a press conference on Thursday.
The horrifying incident came about when a person using on the again of a moped fired at a bunch of adults and kids on a sidewalk in Williamsburg, killing Kaori Patterson–Moore.
Kaori, who lived in Clinton Hill, was shot in her stroller round 1:21 p.m. at the intersection of Moore and Humboldt streets. She was transported to New York City Health and Hospitals/Woodhull by non-public means, the place she was pronounced deceased, police mentioned.
The drive-by shooting has shocked town. “There are no words that can mend the heartbreak this family is feeling right now,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani mentioned at a press convention on the scene Wednesday. “A life that had barely begun was taken in an instant.”
Tisch informed reporters Wednesday the shooter fired at the very least two rounds at a nook the place a number of adults and two strollers had been standing, with a number of youngsters close by. The sufferer was in one of these strollers.
Video obtained by police confirmed the moped had left the Bushwick Houses simply minutes earlier than the shooting, Tisch mentioned. Additional video confirmed the escaping moped crashing into an oncoming automobile two blocks from the crime scene, with each males thrown from the scooter. The rear passenger was thrown so onerous that he misplaced each his footwear, which had been recovered by police.
A 911 name leads police to imagine the moped’s passenger was introduced by Emergency Medical Services to The Brooklyn Hospital Center, the place he was held in custody for an unrelated investigation.
Tisch named Amari Green, 21, because the set off man. He shall be charged not solely with homicide, but in addition two counts of tried homicide, she mentioned.
The suspect nonetheless being sought (the motive force) is described as a younger man sporting mild grey pants and a white T-shirt, with a black surgical masks over his decrease face.
“This is a terrible day in our city, a tragedy that truly shocks the conscience,” Tisch mentioned. “As a mother, I cannot imagine the pain that this family is feeling or the grief that they now carry with them. It is unspeakable.”
Shooting incidents year-to-date are down 25% citywide, in contrast to 2024, and 40% in contrast to 2023, the Brooklyn Eagle reported final week. In the primary two months of 2026, the NYPD delivered the bottom quantity of shooting incidents, shooting victims and murders for that point interval in recorded historical past.
Updated figures launched by Tisch on Thursday present the pattern continued in March, when town skilled the fewest murders and shooting incidents for the primary quarter of the 12 months for the reason that metropolis started preserving statistics.
During the primary quarter of 2026, there have been 54 murders citywide, beating the earlier all-time low of 60 murders set in 2018. During the identical time interval, there have been 139 shooting incidents, tying the all-time low of 139 set in 2025, the most secure 12 months for gun violence recorded by town.
