{"id":49794,"date":"2026-04-13T19:44:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=49794"},"modified":"2026-04-13T19:44:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:44:48","slug":"drill-rap-beef-may-be-behind-senseless-nyc-stray-bullet-death-of-7-month-old-girl-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=49794","title":{"rendered":"Drill rap beef may be behind senseless NYC stray-bullet death of 7-month-old girl: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F04%2F125576494.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A drill rap war between rival Brooklyn housing projects may have been behind <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/01\/us-news\/7-month-old-baby-clinging-to-life-after-being-shot-by-pair-of-moped-riding-thugs-in-brooklyn-sources\/\">the senseless stray-bullet shooting death<\/a> of a 7-month-old girl, law enforcement sources told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>Accused gunman Amuri Greene was allegedly targeting the baby\u2019s rapper father, Jamari Patterson, when he fired into a crowd in Williamsburg on April 1, killing little Kaori Patterson-Moore, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Greene, 21, was allegedly part of a crew run out of the Marcy Houses feuding with a gang at the nearby Bushwick Houses, according to sources. <\/p>\n<p>Patterson wasn\u2019t affiliated with the rival crew, but his lyrics about the rap beef apparently irked Greene\u2019s group enough that they allegedly sought to kill him, the sources said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Drill rapper Jamari Patterson was targeted in the April 1 shooting over violent lyrics, sources said. <span class=\"credit\">Obtained by NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cCome outside, n\u2014a, lace up your kicks,\u201d Patterson, who goes by \u201cMP,\u201d raps in one track posted to his Soundcloud page. <\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cN\u2014-a, I\u2019m gonna wait for the max for the kill. I\u2019m gonna empty your clip. Keep tracking you won\u2019t make it home,\u201d the lyrics say. \u201cThree shots and it will leave a n\u2014-a dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Greene allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/06\/us-news\/thug-accused-of-killing-7-month-old-girl-in-stroller-confessed-he-was-aiming-gun-at-her-dad-court-docs\/\">admitted that he was aiming<\/a> for Patterson from the back of a moped, according to court papers \u2014 and sources now said it was over the inflammatory lyrics.<\/p>\n<p>NYPD Chief of Detectives Joe Kenny said after the tragic shooting that Patterson had an \u201cassociation\u201d with some members of the Money Over Everything or \u201cMOE\u201d gang at the Bushwick Houses.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, Patterson\u2019s rhymes got him caught in the middle of the ongoing drill rap feud between the Bushwick crew and the one from the Marcy Houses, which Greene was allegedly tied to, though the most recent song was uploaded to his account a year ago.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Alleged gunman Amuri Greene had ties to a Marcy Houses crew that was feuding with Bushwick House. <span class=\"credit\">Obtained by NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Family members mourn after 7-month-old Kaori Patterson-Moore was shot dead in her stroller on April 1. <span class=\"credit\">James Keivom for NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Surveillance images show Kaori Patterson-Moore, her family and her killers shortly before the shooting. <span class=\"credit\">Obtained by NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe do know he has an association with some other MOE gang members,\u201d Kenny said previously. \u201cHe is not in our criminal group database as an MOE gang member, but based on the geography and where he was at that time, we\u2019re looking into that aspect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Greene is charged with murder and attempted murder in the shooting that <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/07\/us-news\/heartbroken-brother-of-7-month-old-killed-in-senseless-nyc-shooting-keeps-asking-for-his-sister-da\/\">also wounded Kaori\u2019s 2-year-old brother<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His alleged accomplice, Matthew Rodriguez, was nabbed in Pennsylvania and was expected to be extradited to Brooklyn and to appear in court to face charges this week.<\/p>\n<p>The Patterson-Moore was out near Humboldt and Moore Streets when the shots rang out, with distraught mom Lianna Moore\u00a0rushing her kids into a nearby bodega \u2014 when she looked down and saw the blood.<\/p>\n<p>Heart-breaking surveillance video showed the mom screaming in panic when she saw her wounded baby, who had just started to say \u201cmama,\u201d according to her family.<\/p>\n<p>The mom maintained last week that Patterson was not involved with a gang.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Grieving mom Lianna Moore said Kaori\u2019s dad was not involved in a gang. <span class=\"credit\">obtained by NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s not what it was,\u201d she told The Post. \u201cEverybody keeps saying that they came out to target my fianc\u00e9, but he had nothing to do with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The devastated dad has said he had been trying to turn his life around after his little girl was born.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUpon graduating, I ended up having my beautiful baby girl, seeing her for the first time I knew she was special,\u201d he wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/04\/us-news\/i-want-my-baby-back-dad-of-brooklyn-7-month-old-shot-in-her-stroller-says-in-letter\/\">in a letter released after after a community vigil <\/a>in the days following her tragic death.<\/p>\n<p>When he finally got to take her home, he \u201cmade sure her and her mom and her brother all stayed with me and vowed I changed my life for them through music,\u201d the letter said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe life I live, even getting different jobs to stay away from negativity, I begin to change things up. Which is facts.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The family was set to lay their baby to rest Monday evening, with a funeral scheduled at Brooklyn\u2019s Cornerstone Baptist Church.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/13\/us-news\/drill-rap-beef-may-be-behind-senseless-nyc-stray-bullet-death-of-7-month-old-girl-sources\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A drill rap war between rival Brooklyn housing projects may have been behind the senseless stray-bullet shooting death of a 7-month-old girl, law enforcement sources told&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}