WILLIAMSBURG — A man suspected of shooting and killing a 7-month-old baby in a stroller Wednesday afternoon will be charged with murder, and police are seeking a second suspect, New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a press conference on Thursday.
The horrifying incident took place when a man riding on the back of a moped fired at a group of adults and children on a sidewalk in Williamsburg, killing Kaori Patterson–Moore.
Kaori, who lived in Clinton Hill, was shot in her stroller around 1:21 p.m. at the intersection of Moore and Humboldt streets. She was transported to New York City Health and Hospitals/Woodhull by private means, where she was pronounced deceased, police said.
The drive-by shooting has shocked the city. “There are no words that can mend the heartbreak this family is feeling right now,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani said at a press conference at the scene Wednesday. “A life that had barely begun was taken in an instant.”
Tisch told reporters Wednesday the shooter fired at least two rounds at a corner where several adults and two strollers were standing, with several children nearby. The victim was in one of those strollers.
Video obtained by police showed the moped had left the Bushwick Houses just minutes before the shooting, Tisch said. Additional video showed the escaping moped crashing into an oncoming car two blocks from the crime scene, with both men thrown from the scooter. The rear passenger was thrown so hard that he lost both his shoes, which were recovered by police.
A 911 call leads police to believe the moped’s passenger was brought by Emergency Medical Services to The Brooklyn Hospital Center, where he was held in custody for an unrelated investigation.
Tisch named Amari Green, 21, as the trigger man. He will be charged not only with murder, but also two counts of attempted murder, she said.
The suspect still being sought (the driver) is described as a young man wearing light gray pants and a white T-shirt, with a black surgical mask over his lower face.
“This is a terrible day in our city, a tragedy that truly shocks the conscience,” Tisch said. “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, compared to 2024, and 40% compared to 2023, the Brooklyn Eagle reported last week. In the first two months of 2026, the NYPD delivered the lowest number of shooting incidents, shooting victims and murders for that time period in recorded history.
Updated figures released by Tisch on Thursday show the trend continued in March, when the city experienced the fewest murders and shooting incidents for the first quarter of the year since the city began keeping statistics.
During the first quarter of 2026, there were 54 murders citywide, beating the previous all-time low of 60 murders set in 2018. During the same time period, there were 139 shooting incidents, tying the all-time low of 139 set in 2025, the safest year for gun violence recorded by the city.