NYC goons who shot baby through head in drive-by were aiming for her dad: sources
The moped-riding goons who shot a 7-month-old Brooklyn girl to death in her stroller were aiming for her dad, law enforcement sources said.
Little Kaori’s father, Jamari Patterson, who lives in the nearby Bushwick Houses, was apparently targeted in the brazen Wednesday afternoon hit over a social media beef with a crew from a rival housing project, investigators now believe, the sources said.
Patterson and Kaori’s mom were pushing a double stroller with the baby girl and her 2-year-old brother near the corner of Humboldt and Moore Streets in East Williamsburg when the deadly duo opened fire from a moped around 1:20 p.m., according to cops.
The gunmen missed Patterson, 22, but struck the helpless tot in the head with the bullet, which then grazed her 2-year-old brother’s back before the thugs sped off.
“We thought it was fireworks, but my son jumped out of the stroller and I picked him up and carried him,” Kaori’s devastated mom Lianna Charles-Moore, 20, told The Post Wednesday.
“I was hugging him 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.”
The baby was rushed to Woodhall Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 1:46 p.m.
The perps crashed their moped two blocks away from the shooting scene.
Th alleged shooter Amuri Greene, 21, flipped off the e-bike and ended up in the hospital, where he was identified as a person of interest in the baby’s death.
Greene remained hospitalized with a leg injury Thursday and has not yet been charged, however, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said he is expected to face murder charges.
The accused baby killer lives in the Marcy Houses, which has had a longstanding feud with the Bushwick Houses, according to sources. The NYCHA facilities are less than a mile apart.
Meanwhile, a “massive NYPD manhunt” has been launched to track down the driver of the moped, who fled the scene and is on the lam, Tisch said.
Kaori’s heartbroken mom said she wants justice for her baby girl who had just begun to say “mamma” before her tragic death.
