A 21-year-old man has been charged with murder in the death of a 7-month-old girl who was struck by a stray bullet in New York City this week.
Amuri Greene of Brooklyn was charged with three counts of murder, attempted murder, five counts of criminal possession of a weapon, two counts of attempted criminal possession of a weapon and two counts of assault, the New York City Police Department said Friday.
Greene was arrested and charged Thursday afternoon, police said. The NYPD on Thursday said that charges were forthcoming against him and that he was at the hospital.
It's not immediately clear if he's retained a lawyer.
A second suspect in the shooting was also taken into custody in Pennsylvania, police said in an update Friday evening.
That suspect was identified as 18-year-old Matthew Rodriguez. Charges against him are pending, police said.
The shooting unfolded Wednesday afternoon when two people on a moped came to the busy intersection of Moore Street and Humboldt Street in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburg, and a person at the back of the moped opened fire multiple times, according to police.
The baby, identified as Kaori Patterson-Moore, was struck and taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead. The moped fled after the shooting.
The shooting sparked a citywide manhunt, with police sharing surveillance photos of two males and asking for the public’s help in identifying them.
The infant's mother, Lianna Charles-Moore, told the New York Post that Kaori was in her stroller when she was hit and that she initially thought the sound of bullets was fireworks.
“My daughter was innocent. She didn’t deserve that. We were just going outside to go get her a few things and my son a few things,” Charles-Moore said.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani condemned the shooting as “an unthinkable loss.”
“We cannot accept this violence as normal. Too many families have suffered this pain,” he said on X.
