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Published 14:59 02 Apr 2026 GMT
The mother of a seven-month-old baby that was shot dead in a stroller in New York has spoken out.
On Wednesday (April 1), a baby identified as Kaori Patterson-Moore, was fatally hit by a stray bullet during gunfire on the intersection of Moore Street and Humboldt in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg area.
The baby was declared dead at the scene.
Video of the horrific shooting was obtained by The New York Post from a CCTV camera inside a bodega and shows the moment when mother Lianna Charles-Moore first noticed her baby had been shot.
Charles-Moore, along with the baby’s father, took cover inside the deli with Kaori and her two-year-old brother, who became hysterical after hearing loud bangs, which they initially mistook for fireworks.
The shots, however, had been fired by two men on a moped into a crowd near the corner of the street at around 1:20PM, police confirmed.
The footage reveals the heartbreaking moments after the baby was shot in the head. Inside the bodega, her mom, who had been tending to her son, pulls back the stroller’s visor and bends down to check on her daughter. It’s at this moment that she realizes Kaori has suffered a fatal head wound.
She then screams out in horror and jumps up and down.
The devastated mom told the New York Post: "I was hugging [my son], and then when I looked to my left, my daughter was just there, lying there. She was shot in the head. She was just bleeding. It was just too much."
Her breakdown alerted bystanders who had been unaware of the tragedy until that moment.
At a news conference, Mayor of New York Zohran Mamdani said: "There are no words that can mend the heartbreak this family is feeling now, no declaration strong enough to lift the grief they are now forced to carry, no embrace wide enough to heal the hole that has been left their lives.”
He went on to add that New Yorkers must not "grow numb to this pain" of gun violence and normalize it.
NYPD commissioner Jessica Tisch said that one unidentified man that "fits the description of our shooter" is currently in police custody as part of an unrelated investigation, but the moped driver is still on the streets and a "massive NYPD manhunt" is underway to capture him.
That search, she confirmed, involves both officers and bloodhounds. "This is a terrible day in our city, a tragedy that truly shocks the conscience," Tisch added.
Our thoughts are with the family of the victim.
