Baby Killed in Brooklyn Drive-By, Suspects Arrested

0:00A seven-month-old baby girl named Kaori Patterson Moore was killed by a stray bullet during a drive-by shooting in Brooklyn on Wednesday afternoon. Police arrested this suspected shooter, 21-year-old Ameri Green, right after the incident, and he pleaded not guilty to murder charges at his. Arame at that night. Now they've nabbed the second suspect, 18-year-old Matthew Rodriguez, who was picked up in Pennsylvania by New York detectives in U.S. marshals. Police believed to be the moped driver, who sped away from the scene before crashing into a car, two blocks down. The mom, Leona Charles Moore, thought the shots were fireworks at first. She was hugging her two-year-old son, who got grazed by a bullet, when she spotted baby Kaori bleeding from a head wound in her stroller. Green admitted to cops he was aiming at someone else in the crowd. Police commissioner Jessica Tish called it a tragedy that shocks the conscience, and Mayor Zoran Mamdani echoed the heartbreak for the city. Both men are in custody now, with Green held without bail.

1:03As details emerge on Rodriguez's exact role in their connection, this senseless loss reminds us how gun violence rips families apart in our streets. Stay aware out there. That's your update from Canada News Today, powered by AI. I'm Kaori with the story.