A second suspect in the stray-bullet killing of a 7-month-old child on a Brooklyn avenue was arrested Friday, police stated, two days after a shooting the police commissioner referred to as “a tragedy that truly shocks the conscience.”
Matthew Rodriguez, 18, was apprehended in Pennsylvania by New York Police Department detectives working with U.S. Marshals, the NYPD stated.
The suspected shooter, 21-year-old Amuri Greene, was arrested shortly after the drive-by gunfire that killed Kaori Patterson-Moore. Greene pleaded not responsible to homicide and different fees at an arraignment Friday night time and was held with out bail.
Kaori was in her stroller when a two males sped down a avenue on a moped Wednesday afternoon. Greene, driving on the again of the car, fired into a bunch of individuals on a avenue nook, based on a court docket grievance.
Kaori’s mom, Lianna Charles-Moore, advised the New York Post that after listening to what she initially believed had been fireworks, she was comforting her startled 2-year-old son — who had been grazed by a bullet — when she appeared to her left and noticed her child daughter bleeding. The toddler had been shot in the pinnacle.
“My daughter was innocent. She didn’t deserve that,” Charles-Moore advised the newspaper. She stated her daughter was nearly beginning to crawl and had just lately begun saying “Mama.”
Greene advised police he was aiming for one more individual in the gang, based on the court docket grievance.
His legal professional, Jay Schwitzman, stated after court docket that he would conduct “an independent and thorough investigation of the facts and circumstances of this tragic incident.”
Police stated that after the shooting, the moped sped and crashed right into a automobile two blocks away, hurling each males off the car. Greene was injured and shortly was hospitalized in police custody, however the moped driver fled.
Authorities haven’t but launched court docket papers that element Rodriguez’s alleged function. But they haven’t indicated they had been searching for anybody aside from the gunman — alleged to have been Greene — and the moped driver.
Police didn’t instantly have info on how the lads might know one another or the place Rodriguez lives; no working phone quantity for him may instantly be discovered. Police fees towards him had been pending.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch expressed heartbreak and outrage over Kaori’s demise.
“This is a terrible day in our city, a tragedy that truly shocks the conscience,” Tisch stated at a information briefing Wednesday.