NEW YORK—A 7-month-old baby in a stroller was killed by a stray bullet Wednesday afternoon when a man on a moped shot at a group of people on a Brooklyn sidewalk, authorities said.
The shooting was believed to be gang-related and the child an unintended victim, police said.
“There are no words that can mend the heartbreak this family is feeling right now,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani told reporters in a briefing near the spot where the shooting happened. “A life that had barely begun was taken in an instant.”
The shooting unfolded around 1:20 p.m. after two men sped down a street on a moped and the man on the back of the vehicle fired at least two shots at a street corner where several adults and children were gathered. No other injuries from the shooting were reported by police….