{"id":115235,"date":"2026-01-28T16:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T16:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/115235\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T16:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T16:47:07","slug":"masked-man-sought-for-stabbing-bystander-who-tried-to-stop-him-from-tagging-religious-institution-in-jamaica-estates-nypd-qns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/115235\/","title":{"rendered":"Masked man sought for stabbing bystander who tried to stop him from tagging religious institution in Jamaica Estates: NYPD \u2013 QNS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cops are searching for the suspect who allegedly stabbed a man who tried to stop him from tagging graffiti on the Thomas Berry Place in Jamaica Estates. <\/p>\n

Photo courtesy of Kliment Halsband Architects (l.) and NYPD (r.)<\/p>\n

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Detectives from the 107th Precinct<\/a> are investigating the stabbing of a man by a masked stranger in Jamaica Estates<\/a> after the victim caught him in an act of vandalism on the grounds of Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church on the night of Friday, Jan. 23.<\/p>\n

Polixe say the 64-year-old victim spotted the perpetrator at around 7 p.m. spraying graffiti on the front door of the Thomas Berry Place center in the former Bishop Molloy Retreat House at 86-45 Edgerton Blvd. and confronted him. A verbal dispute between the two men ensued and escalated into violence when the vandal allegedly pulled out a knife and plunged it into the right side of the older man\u2019s chest causing serious physical injuries.<\/p>\n

The suspect fled the crime scene running northbound on Edgerton Boulevard before turning right and heading eastbound on Dalney Road toward Midland Parkway, police said.\n<\/p>\n

EMS responded to the location and rushed the injured man to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition.\n<\/p>\n

The NYPD released surveillance images of the suspect as he walked from the parking lot and up the front steps of Thomas Berry Place and described him as having a light complexion. He was last seen wearing a black jacket over a black hooded sweatshirt, black pants, black sneakers, and a black ski mask.<\/p>\n

A reward of up to $3,500 is being offered for information that leads to his arrest and indictment.\n<\/p>\n

Anyone with information regarding this assault investigation is asked to call the NYPD\u2019s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at crimestoppers.nypdonline.org<\/a> or on X (the platform formerly known as Twitter) @NYPDTips. All calls and messages are strictly confidential.
Through Jan. 25, the 107th Precinct has reported nine felony assaults so far in 2026, six fewer than the 15 reported at t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cops are searching for the suspect who allegedly stabbed a man who tried to stop him from tagging…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9181,303,51135,9,24,63,103,104,122,124,123,260],"class_list":{"0":"post-115235","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-107th-precinct","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-immaculate-conception-roman-catholic-church","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nypd","15":"tag-police","16":"tag-queens","17":"tag-queens-headlines","18":"tag-queens-news","19":"tag-stabbing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}