The gunman who killed a 7-month-old girl in a stroller with a stray bullet during a botched gang shooting will be charged with murder, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Thursday — as cops work to determine if the shooter was aiming at the infant’s father.
Amuri Greene, 21, was taken into custody after the moped he was riding on the back of crashed a few blocks away from the scene, cops said. Both he and his accomplice, who remained on the loose Thursday, were thrown from the moped, and Greene was injured in the crash.
Speaking at a press conference at NYPD Headquarters in lower Manhattan Thursday, Tisch said that detectives have identified the operator of the moped and are actively looking for him.
Greene was allegedly the triggerman in the death of little Kaori Patterson-Moore, who was struck in the head by a stray bullet as her mom pushed her and her 3-year-old brother in a double stroller near Humboldt and Moore Sts. in East Williamsburg at about 1:20 p.m. Wednesday, cops said.
Cops intend to charge Greene, who was still in the hospital Thursday, with murder and attempted murder, Tisch said.
Investigators believe the shooting was gang-related. Kaori’s father has links to members of the Money Over Everything gang in the Bushwick Houses, NYPD officials said.
The gang, known as MOE, is in the middle of an ongoing dispute with a crew Greene is associated with from the Marcy Houses, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said.
Cops are investigating little Kaori’s dad’s connections to MOE and if Greene was aiming at him when he killed the man’s daughter, Kenny said.
“We’re still looking into that. We know that he [Kaori’s dad] does have an association with some other [Money Over Everything] gang members,” Kenny said. “He is not in our criminal group database as an MOE member but based on the geography and where he was at the time we are looking into that.”
When reached Wednesday, Kaori’s mother, Liana Moore, quickly dismissed the idea that her fiancé was involved.
“That’s not right,” Moore, 20, told the Daily News when reached at her home Thursday. “We haven’t been outside. We haven’t been anywhere. We’ve been inside the house. We haven’t been doing anything.”
“People like [Greene] come around there all the time, looking for other people,” she said. “It’s not because of their dad.”
Kaori’s dad declined to speak Thursday.
Moore and Kaori’s dad had taken their two young kids out to get baby supplies when the shooting occurred.
The backseat passenger on a passing scooter opened fire into a group of people at the corner, which included Kaori’s parents and some other young children.
Moore raced her two children to a nearby bodega, where she found blood on Kaori’s face. Her father scooped the infant up and raced her to Woodhull Hospital a few blocks away, but the infant couldn’t be saved.
The couple’s 3-year-old son was grazed in the back by the bullet that pierced Kaori’s skull, police and witnesses said. He was taken to the same hospital and treated and released.
“My daughter, she was innocent. She was happy. She was always laughing,” Moore, told the Daily News Wednesday. “She didn’t deserve that.”
Mia Torres, a friend and neighbor of Kaori’s father, heard screaming outside moments after the shooting. She raced out to find Moore quaking in a mix of fear and outrage.
“My daughter got shot! My daughter got shot!” Moore screamed, Torres, 19, remembered.
Moore’s son was crying as well, she said.
“This is my sister! I want my mom!” the child cried, Torres said.
Greene was riding behind his accomplice when he drew his gun, startling surveillance footage released by the NYPD shows.
After firing off a few rounds, the pair fled north on Humboldt St., took a left on Siegel St. and then crashed at Manhattan Ave. three blocks from the scene, according to NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny.
Both men were thrown from the scooter, with Greene hitting the pavement so hard that he lost both shoes, Tisch said.
Video posted online shows the suspects’ scooter slamming into the front end of a sedan as they travel against traffic. The impact hurls both men to the pavement, and the shoeless rear passenger can be seen hobbling on one foot afterward.
The video ends as the scooter’s operator retrieves what appears to be a firearm from the street before both men climb back onto the scooter and ride off screen.
EMS alerted by a 911 call placed after the crash brought Greene to Brooklyn Hospital Center, where he was first taken into police custody for a domestic-violence-related robbery, according to Tisch.
He is a known gang associate from NYCHA’s Marcy Houses, police said.
Tisch said the shooting is believed to be gang-related, and the baby was an unintended target.
“I want justice,” Moore said. “They could have killed my son and my daughter.”
Torres said violence in and around the NYCHA complexes near where the shooting occurred are “not that bad when it comes to shooting.”
“There could be a crowd of over 50 people outside and nothing ever happens. That’s why this is so weird,” she said.
The teen was stunned that the brazen daylight shooting occurred near families. A public school was literally behind her building, she said.
“I feel if you saw a kid around, you should put the gun away,” Torres said. “Still shooting while knowing there are kids around? That makes no sense.”
The shooting comes as the NYPD marked a 28% drop in murders citywide, from 75 slayings in the first three months of 2025 to 54 so far this year. The city saw 139 shootings in the first quarter of the year, which was the same in 2025, the lowest number of shootings tallied in the city since the CompStat era began in 1994.
