7-month-old baby killed by stray bullet in Brooklyn shooting, police say

A 7-month-old babe miss was killed by a stray slug Wednesday day erstwhile a gunman connected a moped opened occurrence connected a Brooklyn street, constabulary said.

According to the New York City Police Department, 2 individuals connected a moped approached the intersection of Moore Street and Humboldt Street successful Brooklyn erstwhile the idiosyncratic successful the backmost fired a limb aggregate times, with a stray slug striking a young miss connected the sidewalk.

The NYPD has identified the 7-month-old miss arsenic Kaori Patterson-Moore of Brooklyn. She was pronounced dormant astatine the hospital.

The individuals fled the country connected the moped. The NYPD said 1 idiosyncratic of involvement is successful custody, portion a manhunt is underway for the 2nd fishy arsenic constabulary inquire for the public’s assistance identifying those involved.

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Authorities are asking for the public’s assistance identifying suspects successful a Brooklyn shooting that near a babe dead. (Google Maps; NYPD)

The shooting was believed to beryllium gang-related, and the kid was an unintended victim, according to police.

"There are nary words that tin mend the heartbreak this household is feeling close now," New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said during a quality conference. "A beingness that had hardly begun was taken successful an instant."

The shooting took spot astir 1:20 p.m. connected a thoroughfare country wherever respective adults and children were gathered. Police said determination were nary different injuries connected to the shooting.

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Images released by the NYPD amusement suspects wanted successful transportation with a Brooklyn shooting that killed a 7-month-old baby. (NYPD/ DCPI)

Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said the moped sped disconnected aft the shooting but crashed into an oncoming car 2 blocks away. Both riders fell disconnected the vehicle, and the interaction caused the rider to suffer some his shoes, she added.

One of the men connected the moped was injured and taken to the infirmary and is successful constabulary custody successful transportation with an unrelated investigation, constabulary said. Investigators judge the antheral fits the statement of the alleged shooter based connected his covering and appearance.

The different antheral fled and has not been located by constabulary arsenic of Wednesday evening.

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An representation released by constabulary amusement 2 suspects believed to beryllium progressive successful the shooting that killed a 7-month-old babe connected April 1. (NYPD/ DCPI)

No weapon has been recovered from the scene, but 2 ammunition casings were found, constabulary said.

"This is simply a unspeakable time successful our city, a calamity that genuinely shocks the conscious," Tisch said astatine the quality conference. "As a mother, I cannot ideate the symptom that this household is feeling oregon the grief that they present transportation with them. It is unspeakable."

Investigators reviewed vicinity information cameras and tracked the moped's question pursuing the shooting, Tisch said.

Mamdani said Wednesday’s homicide is simply a reminder that much enactment needs to beryllium done to trim weapon violence.

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New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, flanked by Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, left, and Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny, supply an update connected a Brooklyn shooting during a quality conference, Wednesday, April 1, 2026, successful New York.  (NYPD via AP)

Police are asking anyone with accusation regarding the incidental to telephone the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline astatine 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or, for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The nationalist tin besides taxable tips online oregon connected X @NYPDTips.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.