{"id":135441,"date":"2026-02-16T20:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135441\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T20:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:24:07","slug":"cleveland-browns-player-assaulted-at-nyc-hotel-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135441\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland Browns player assaulted at NYC hotel, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A football player for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/baltimore\/news\/cleveland-browns-head-coach-todd-monken-ravens\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cleveland Browns<\/a> was assaulted inside a New York City hotel early Monday morning, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Police said a 24-year-old man was beaten by four unknown men at 4:30 a.m. in the lobby of the SIXTY LES Hotel on Allen Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A statement from the NFL team confirmed the victim was safety Ronnie Hickman.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ronnie was treated for minor injuries at an area hospital after the incident, was later released and is home resting with his family,&#8221; the statement read.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers retrieved surveillance video from the hotel, and they are looking for the suspects. They said the motive is unclear.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hickman was signed to the Browns in 2023 as a free agent after playing college football at The Ohio State University.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A football player for the Cleveland Browns was assaulted inside a New York City hotel early Monday morning,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2673,358,75,8919,9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-135441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-cleveland-browns","9":"tag-lower-east-side","10":"tag-manhattan","11":"tag-national-football-league","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-city-news","16":"tag-ny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135441","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=135441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}