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Second person arrested in shooting death of baby girl in East Williamsburg
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Published Apr 3, 2026
Modified Apr 3, 2026
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A second suspect in Wednesday’s death of a 7-month-old girl in East Williamsburg has been captured after a massive manhunt by the NYPD, according to police.
An NYPD spokesperson identified him as Mathew Rodriguez, 18, but did not yet announce what charges he is facing. The spokesperson said Rodriguez was arrested in Pennsylvania on Friday by NYPD detectives assigned to the U.S. Marshals Regional Fugitive Task Force.
Also, on Friday, a 21-year-old Brooklyn man who’d been previously arrested in the incident pleaded not guilty to multiple murder charges. That man, Amuri Greene, was arraigned Friday evening from his hospital bed, where he is under treatment for injuries that police said he sustained while fleeing the scene.
Greene’s lawyer did not seek bail, and Greene will be held in custody until his trial.
He faces three murder charges, each under a different section of the penal law: intentional murder, depraved indifference murder and murder of a child under 11. He was also charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting at the baby's father, as well as five counts of criminal weapon possession, two counts of attempted weapon possession and two counts of assault.
Police have not said whether the gun used in the shooting has been recovered.
Greene watched his arraignment via a video phone call. He had close-cut hair, a thin mustache and spoke in a deep voice to several procedural questions.
“Yes, boss,” he said to Judge Juan Abreu when asked if he understood the terms of an order of protection his girlfriend filed. Greene also pleaded not guilty to robbing his girlfriend in an incident several days before the shooting.
Prosecutors gave new details about the shooting on Friday. Assistant District Attorney Jordan Rossman said the infant, Kaori Patterson-Moore, was shot through the head and that her brother was hit in the body as they were pushed in a stroller by the girl’s father, the intended target.
Investigators have said Greene opened fire near Humboldt and Moore streets around 1:20 p.m., riding on a moped driven by the man now identified as Rodriguez. The girl’s father rushed the children to nearby Woodhull Hospital, where Patterson-Moore was pronounced dead, according to authorities.
Police said the moped crashed into an oncoming car a few blocks away minutes later. Greene was taken by ambulance to a hospital, where officers took him into custody, officials said.
Police said the person they’ve now identified as Rodriguez was last seen running toward the Marcy Houses before being captured Friday.
NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said earlier this week that investigators were examining whether the shooting was tied to a feud between groups from the Marcy Houses and the Bushwick Houses, two public housing developments in the area.
Greene’s lawyer, Jay Schweitzer, declined to comment. Attorney information for Rodriguez was not immediately available.
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