{"id":119453,"date":"2026-02-02T01:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T01:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/119453\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T01:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T01:28:07","slug":"cops-search-for-man-who-slammed-stranger-with-baseball-bat-at-bronx-subway-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/119453\/","title":{"rendered":"Cops search for man who slammed stranger with baseball bat at Bronx subway station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man who mercilessly beat a stranger in the face with a baseball bat at a Bronx subway station is on the loose, and police on Sunday released photographs of the attacker, asking the public\u2019s help in getting him off of the streets.<\/p>\n<p>During the Jan. 29 evening rush hour, the suspect approached a 40-year-old man inside the <a href=\"https:\/\/subwaystats.com\/station\/kingsbridge-rd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kingsbridge Road subway station<\/a> on Grand Concourse near E. 196th St. in Bedford Park around 5:45 p.m., stricking the victim in the face with the bat several times, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Neither of the men knew each other, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was injured in his left eye and suffered pain in the left side of his face, police said. Medics transported him to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbhny.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Barnabas Hospital<\/a> in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>The attacker, meanwhile, bolted from the scene and remains on the loose. Police described the man as having a a dark complexion, and said he was last seen wearing a black jacket, brown hooded sweatshirt, green pants and a black baseball cap.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/nypd\/services\/see-say-something\/crimestoppers.page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime Stoppers<\/a> at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who mercilessly beat a stranger in the face with a baseball bat at a Bronx subway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-119453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119453","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=119453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}