A 7-month-old girl was killed by a stray bullet on April 1 in Williamsburg; authorities say the shooter was aiming at her father.
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The father of a 7-month-old girl killed by a stray bullet in Brooklyn earlier this month was the intended target of the shooter, police said Tuesday.
The infant, Kaori Patterson-Moore, was sitting in a stroller near her parents outside a deli in the Williamsburg neighborhood on April 1 when two men on a motorbike approached the corner of Humboldt and Moore Streets. One of the men, identified by police as Amuri Greene, 21, fired shots into a crowd of adults and children, striking the baby and her 2-year-old brother, who was grazed in the back.
The men fled the scene as the baby's father, Jamari Patterson, began screaming and picked up his lifeless child, according to witnesses. Both men have been arrested and charged with murder in connection with the death of the infant.
The shooting occurred in broad daylight in a residential area where families were present. The 2-year-old boy sustained a grazing wound but survived the incident. Police determined through their investigation that Patterson, the father, was the intended target of the gunfire, though the bullets struck his daughter instead.
The case remains under investigation by authorities.
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