New York City’s progressive Mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has attributed the tragic shooting of a seven-month-old infant to the pervasive issue of gun violence.
During a Wednesday press conference, the 34-year-old mayor refrained from mentioning the two suspects involved in the death of Kaori Patterson-Moore, who was fatally shot while in her stroller in Brooklyn.
“We cannot accept this as a norm in our city. We cannot become desensitized to such suffering,” Mamdani remarked. “Today serves as a heartbreaking reminder of the extensive work still needed to tackle gun violence in our community.”
“Too many young lives are cut short before reaching adulthood, and too many parents face the unimaginable pain of burying their loved ones.”
Following this tragedy, authorities have apprehended Amuri Greene, 21, and Matthew Rodriguez, 18, for their alleged roles in Patterson-Moore’s murder.
Greene has been formally charged with three counts of murder, while Rodriguez was apprehended in Pennsylvania later that same day, with charges still pending.
Councilwoman Vickie Paladino, who represents Queens, slammed the mayor for focusing on the wrong thing.
‘Literally anything but blaming the criminals who our system releases onto our streets repeatedly, over and over again, with no consequences,’ she wrote on X.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani, 34, blamed gun violence for the death of Kaori Patterson-Moore, seven months, on Wednesday
He made no mention of Patterson-Moore’s killers when he condemned the tragedy
‘Absolute disgrace.’
Patterson-Moore was shot dead while parents Jamari Patterson, 22, and Lianna Moore, 20, and brother, Kaizen, were strolling through Brooklyn on Wednesday afternoon.
The parents had been taking their kids to buy baby supplies when the shooting happened around 1.20pm.
They had originally thought someone had set off fireworks, which had caused her son to hop out of the stroller.
The family fled into a nearby bodega before Moore noticed her daughter’s head was bleeding, surveillance footage obtained by the New York Post showed.
As she screamed in terror, the father of her two children grabbed their daughter and carried her to Woodhull Hospital seven blocks away, ‘all while her blood [ran] on his hands,’ the mother said on social media.
While at the hospital, it was discovered that little Kaizen had also suffered from a bullet graze. The bullet had hit his back after passing through his sister. It left a lump on his back.
Police sources told The Post that the stray bullet may have been intended for the girl’s father. Additional sources confirmed to The New York Daily News that police were investigating whether the shooting was gang-related, which has been denied by Patterson-Moore’s mother.
Amuri Greene, 21, the alleged shooter, has been charged with three counts of murder. Matthew Rodriguez, 18, was apprehended on Friday night in Pennsylvania. His charges are pending
Horrific surveillance footage captured the moment Lianna Moore realized her seven-month-old baby had been shot dead by a stray bullet in Brooklyn on Wednesday
Police sources told the New York Post that the girl’s father, Jamari Patterson, may have been the intended target. Patterson carried his daughter to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead
The family had been out shopping for baby supplies when the shooting occured around 1.20pm
Patterson, an aspiring rapper, allegedly had complications with a crew from a rival housing project over social media, sources told The Post.
Patterson lives at the Bushwick Houses public housing project while Greene is said to live at Marcy Houses, another public housing unit with a long-running feud with Bushwick Houses, sources told The Post.
Police believe the shooting was gang-related and are investigating whether the shooter was aiming for Patterson, who is allegedly linked to the Money Over Everything gang, the New York Daily News reported.
Moore, however, denies that her fiancé has ties to gangs, writing on social media: ‘The police say anything to put things together fast to piece sum [sic] together.’
The mother-of-two said her ‘babies were always protected,’ and said the accusations are ‘insensitive and disturbing.’
‘God don’t like ugly,’ she wrote. ‘I’m grieving my baby girl, god has something for you cs [sic] ya ugly and disturbed mentally.’
The mother-of-two now wants a remedy for her daughter’s death.
‘I want justice,’ Moore said. ‘They deserve to stay in jail, and they don’t deserve to come out after what they did to my baby, because I can’t get her back.’
