{"id":438859,"date":"2026-08-21T00:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T00:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/438859\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T00:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T00:24:08","slug":"man-in-creepy-doll-mask-who-has-terrified-philadelphians-may-be-headed-to-l-a-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/438859\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in creepy doll mask who has terrified Philadelphians may be headed to L.A., police say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A man caught on video terrorizing a woman in Philadelphia reportedly has known ties to the L.A. area, according to authorities. <\/p>\n

On Aug. 12 around 5:30 a.m., a man in a disturbing white face mask chased a 40-year-old woman in the downtown area of Philadelphia across from City Hall, according to the city\u2019s Police Department.<\/p>\n

He was later identified as 22-year-old Zymire Hughes.<\/p>\n

Hughes allegedly \u201cmade threatening comments while holding his hand behind his back,\u201d causing the woman to fall and get injured, police said. Hughes fled to a City Center station of Philadelphia\u2019s rail system, according to the department. <\/p>\n

A warrant for Hughes\u2019 arrest is active, police said. He may have fled Pennsylvania and has ties to California and Nevada. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe has a tendency to travel back and forth to the West Coast, California, the L.A. area, but also Las Vegas … for employment reasons,\u201d Philadelphia Police Capt. Jason Smith told a local news outlet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Police Department is working with the U.S. Marshals to try to find Hughes.<\/p>\n

The department had previously released images and video<\/a> of the suspect wearing a white mask, a blue backpack and black clothing to try to identify the man. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man caught on video terrorizing a woman in Philadelphia reportedly has known ties to the L.A. area,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[7,4752,174090,174089,61036,41088,2303,48,52,51,47,50,49,1555,9330,174091,590,16907,5050,7943,1557],"class_list":["post-438859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-california","tag-city-hall","tag-creepy-doll-mask","tag-disturbing-white-face-mask","tag-hughes","tag-l-a-area","tag-l-a","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-man","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphians","tag-police-department","tag-tie","tag-video","tag-warrant","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}