A second suspect in the death of a 7-month-old girl in East Williamsburg Wednesday has been captured after a massive manhunt by the NYPD, according to police.
An NYPD spokesperson identified him as Matthew Rodriguez, 18, but did not yet announce what charges he is facing. The spokesperson said Rodriguez was arrested in Pennsylvania Friday.
Also Friday, a 21-year-old Brooklyn man who’d been previously arrested in the incident was set for arraignment on multiple murder charges.
That man, Amurib Green, remainined in his hospital bed, where he is under treatment for injuries that police said he sustained while fleeing the scene.
Amuri Greene faces three murder charges, each under a different section of the penal law: intentional murder, depraved indifference murder and murder of a child under 11. He was also charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting at the baby's father, as well as five counts of criminal weapon possession, two counts of attempted weapon possession and two counts of assault, officials said.
Police have not said whether the gun used in the shooting had been recovered.
Investigators say Greene was the passenger on the moped when he opened fire near Humboldt and Moore streets around 1:20 p.m. Wednesday, striking infant Kaori Patterson-Moore as she sat in a stroller. Police said the baby was not the intended target. Her father rushed her to nearby Woodhull Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, according to authorities.
Police said the moped crashed into an oncoming car a few blocks away minutes later. Greene was taken by ambulance to a hospital, where officers took him into custody, officials said.
The driver — now identified as Rodriguez — was last seen running toward the Marcy Houses in Bedford-Stuyvesant, wearing light gray pants, a white T-shirt and a black surgical mask, police said.
NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said investigators were examining whether the shooting was tied to a feud between groups from the Marcy Houses and the Bushwick Houses, two public housing developments in the area.
Attorney information for the two suspects was not immediately available.
