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