A second suspect in the fatal shooting of a 7-month-old baby girl in Brooklyn has been arrested following a days-long manhunt, cops said.
Matthew Rodriguez, 18, was nabbed in Pennsylvania on Friday after a US Marshals fugitive task force with assigned NYPD cops got information that he hopped from the Big Apple, police said.
Rodriguez allegedly drove a moped Wednesday carting a gunman – Amuri Greene, 21, police contend – opened fire at the corner of Humboldt and Moore streets in Bushwick.
Stray bullets hit 7-month-old Kaori Patterson and her 2-year-old brother, police said. Kaori died in the shooting, while her brother suffered graze wound to his back.
Greene faces a murder charge in the horrific shooting. He was arrested after he showed up to a Brooklyn hospital with a broken leg, apparently suffered when his accomplice’s moped collided with an oncoming car during the getaway, police said.
Sources said they were allegedly targeting the slain tot’s father, who was walking nearby.
The moped’s driver eluded capture for two days as the NYPD mounted a manhunt.
His days in the wind ended after US Marshals and their NYPD officer received a lead he was in the Bronx, sources said. Investigators then traced him from the Boogie Down to the Keystone State, the sources said.
NYPD detectives assigned to the task force took Rodriguez into custody in Pennsylvania, police announced in an X post.
Charges against Rodriguez are pending.
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