A video captured the heart-wrenching moment a young mom realized her 7-month-old daughter had been shot by a stray bullet while pushing the tot in a stroller through Brooklyn Wednesday.
The security footage from an East Williamsburg bodega obtained by The Post captured the gutting scene when mother Lianna Charles-Moore first noticed her baby girl had been struck by a bullet inside her stroller.
Charles-Moore and the tot’s dad took cover inside the deli with baby Kaori and her crying 2-year-old brother, who became hysterical after loud blasts rang out.
The booms, which the family had initally mistaken for fireworks, turned out to be gunshots fired by a pair of moped-riding thugs into a crowd near the corner of Humboldt and Moore Streets around 1:20 p.m., according to cops.
The footage reveals what happened in the excruciating minutes after little Kaori had been shot in the head.
Inside the bodega, Charles-Moore, who had been tending to her son, pulls back the double stroller’s visor and bends down to glance at Kaori, who suffered a fatal head wound in the shooting, the clip shows.
The distraught mom jumps up and down and screams out with her hands above her head as she’s overcome with emotion, according to the agonizing footage.
“I was hugging [my son], 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,” Charles-Moore said in a phone interview on Wednesday.
Her break-down alerted bystanders all totally unaware of the tragedy unfolding under their noses up to that point.
A child who had been standing behind the stroller peaks around to its seat and immediately steps back, appearing aghast with their jaw dropped.
A man rushes over and appears stunned by what he sees, covering his mouth before hastily pushing the stroller outside. It’s not immediately clear if the man is Kaori’s father or a good Samaritan.
The tragic youngster was then rushed by ambulance to Woodhull Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 1:46 p.m. Her 2-year-old brother suffered a graze wound and was treated at the same facility.
The bubbly baby had just learned how to say the word “mama” and hadn’t even begun walking yet when the heartless shooter on a moped fired in her direction.
Chilling surveillance photos captured the suspect blasting a gun from the back of the moped as the driver sped away.
The duo eventually crashed into an oncoming car two blocks away — throwing the passenger to the pavement so hard that his shoes flew off his feet, police officials said.
The passenger was rushed to Brooklyn Hospital, where he was identified as a person of interest in the deadly shooting and was taken into custody in connection to an unrelated domestic incident, cops said.
A massive manhunt has been launched to locate the second suspect.
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