Brooklyn baby killed: Second person arrested in shooting that killed 7-month-old girl East Williamsburg
EAST WILLIAMSBURG, Brooklyn (WABC) — A second person has been arrested in connection to the deadly shooting of a baby girl in Brooklyn.
Police believe 18-year-old Matthew Rodriguez is the second suspect wanted for operating the moped during the deadly shooting of 7-month-old child Kaori Patterson-Moore on Wednesday in East Williamsburg. He was taken into custody in Pennsylvania on Friday by NYPD detectives assigned to the U.S. Marshals Regional Fugitive Task Force. Charges against him are pending.
The alleged gunman, who was a passenger on the moped, was already in custody.
The suspected gunman, 21-year-old Amuri Greene, has been charged with murder, attempted murder and assault. He was arrainged from his hospital bed on Friday where he is being treated for a broken leg.
He was remanded and held without bail and is due back in court on April 8.
Officials say Rodriguez was identified through his suspected gang ties and his fingerprints left on the scooter, recovered by police in the hours after the shooting.
Rodriguez has one prior arrest as a juvenile that is sealed. Greene also has a juvenile record which is sealed.
The 7-month-old child was being pushed in a stroller by her mother when shots rang out on Wednesday at Humboldt and Moore streets around 1 p.m.
As people ran for cover, the baby’s mother, father and 2-year-old brother fled to a nearby bodega where they realized the baby had been shot. The child’s father ran to the nearby Woodhull Hospital with the baby, where she was pronounced dead.
The baby’s family said she had just started talking and saying the word “mama.”
Eyewitness News spoke with the baby’s mother extensively on Friday, and she gave us permission to share her post from TikTok:
The baby’s mother gave Eyewitness News permission to share what she posted on TikTok.
Attorney General Letitia James will attend a noon vigil Saturday for the 7-month-old girl, organized by local clergy.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
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