Baby shot dead in pram in New York City, police say

A seven-month-old girl was shot and killed while sitting in her pushchair in "broad daylight" in New York City, police have said.

Police believe the baby, whom they named as Kaori Patterson-Moore, was the unintended victim of a gang-related shooting.

Footage from the scene shows two men on a motorcycle riding against the flow of traffic through the Williamsburg neighbourhood of Brooklyn. A man on the back of the vehicle took out a gun and fired "at least two rounds", New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said.

The bike crashed and the suspected shooter was apprehended, but a "massive" manhunt was under way for the driver, said the police chief.

The baby's mother, Lianna Charles-Moore, tearfully told the BBC's US partner CBS: "She's gone, and I can't ever see her again.

"I can't smell her, can't kiss her. I can't wake up and feed her her bottle.

"I can't dress her. Everything I wanted to do with her, I can't do with her anymore."

No-one has yet been charged in connection to the shooting.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said: "A life that had barely begun was taken in an instant.

"Today is a devastating reminder of how much more work there is to be done to combat gun violence across this city."

Several adults and children, two of whom were in buggies, had been on a street corner when gunfire rang out on Wednesday.

Baby Kaori's parents ran for cover in a nearby shop, where they realised their child had been shot, CBS reported.

"All the kids started ducking in the corner. The family went to the store and the mom started screaming when she noticed the baby was bleeding from [her] head," witness Bernius Maldonado said.

Footage from inside the shop, published by the New York Post, shows the moment the child's mother is about to pick up the infant and notices the injuries.

The mother then becomes hysterical, and starts jumping up and down with her hands clasped behind her head.

Emergency services were called at 13:21 local time (17:21 GMT).

Kaori was taken to nearby Woodhull Hospital where she was pronounced dead. Police reported no other people killed or injured in the incident.

"As a mother, I cannot imagine the pain that this family is feeling or the grief that they now carry with them," Tisch told a news conference. "It is unspeakable."

Footage seen by police showed the suspects crashing into a carshortly after fleeing the scene.

Both suspects were thrown from the moped - but the rear passenger landed so hard he lost "both of his shoes", Tisch said.

An ambulance was called for the injured man, who was transported to Brooklyn Hospital, where he was taken into police custody.

Investigators say they believe he fits the description of the gun-wielding assailant, based on the clothing he was wearing and his appearance, but he was taken into custody as part of an unrelated investigation.