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7-month-old girl killed by stray bullet in senseless NYC shooting just started saying ‘mama,’ heartbroken family reveals

The tragic tot, Kaori, was seated with her brother in a double stroller when “something went off” near Humboldt and Moore Streets, their mother, Lianna Charles-Moore said in a phone interview.

Published April 2, 2026, 1:52 AM
Updated April 2, 2026, 2:17 AM1.6K
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7-month-old girl killed by stray bullet in senseless NYC shooting just started saying ‘mama,’ heartbroken family reveals

The 7-month-old baby killed by a stray bullet in Brooklyn while her mother was pushing her around in her stroller on Wednesday afternoon had just learned how to say “mama,” her heartbroken family told The Post.

The tragic tot, Kaori, was seated with her brother in a double stroller when “something went off” near Humboldt and Moore Streets, their mother, Lianna Charles-Moore said in a phone interview.

Those loud blasts turned out to be gunshots fired by a thug on the back of a moped, but the distraught mom didn’t realize at first.

“We thought it was fireworks, but my son jumped out of the stroller, and I picked him up and carried him,” the 20-year-old recalled.

A baby girl in a car seat, wearing a white shirt with red polka dots and a red skirt, with a matching white headband.

7-month-old Kaori Patterson-Moore was fatally shot dead in her stroller by a stray bullet.

“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,” she said.

The tearful mother revealed that her son had also been grazed in his back by a bullet and has been asking for his sister ever since she was fatally shot.

“My daughter was innocent. She didn’t deserve that. We was just going outside to go get her a few things, and my son a few things. My son got impacted with everything that happened, yeah, so it was just too much, because they could have killed my son and my daughter,” Liana said.

Surveillance photo of two individuals on a scooter, one in a hoodie holding a gun.

The two perps involved in the fatal shooting remain at large. via REUTERS

A blood-soaked pink knit hat lies on dark asphalt with a white street line.

The child’s blood-soaked hat lies on the ground at the scene OLGA FEDOROVA/EPA/Shutterstock

Family members remembered the 7-month-old as a bubbly baby who was “always laughing” and said she had just learned how to say the word “mama.”

“She just started saying, Mama, she just started, like, almost about to crawl, like it was just a whole bunch of stuff that she was just learning how to do,” her mother said.

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