{"id":135468,"date":"2026-02-16T20:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135468\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T20:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T20:53:07","slug":"browns-safety-assaulted-in-nyc-hotel-team-says-whio-tv-7-and-whio-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/135468\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns safety assaulted in NYC hotel, team says \u2013 WHIO TV 7 and WHIO Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">NEW YORK CITY \u2014 Cleveland Browns safety Ronnie Hickman was reportedly assaulted while in New York City early Monday morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">[DOWNLOAD: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whio.com\/mobile-apps\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.whio.com\/mobile-apps\/\">Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">Police told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/cleveland-browns-ronnie-hickman-assaulted-nyc-hotel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/cleveland-browns-ronnie-hickman-assaulted-nyc-hotel\/\">CBS News<\/a> that a 24-year-old man was beaten by four unknown men in a hotel lobby around 4:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">TRENDING STORIES:<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">A Browns spokesperson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clevelandbrowns.com\/news\/ronnie-hickman-released-from-hospital-following-incident\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.clevelandbrowns.com\/news\/ronnie-hickman-released-from-hospital-following-incident\">confirmed<\/a> Hickman was assaulted in a statement, adding that he \u201cwas treated for minor injuries at an area hospital after the incident, was later released, and is home resting with his family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">Hickman was signed by the Browns as an undrafted free agent in 2023. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">He played college football at Ohio State. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">[SIGN UP: <a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.whio.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/membercenter.whio.com\/newsletters\">WHIO-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK CITY \u2014 Cleveland Browns safety Ronnie Hickman was reportedly assaulted while in New York City early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8918,3622,9,56,63,65,64,3623],"class_list":{"0":"post-135468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-american-football","9":"tag-bestof","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-ny","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-nyc-headlines","14":"tag-nyc-news","15":"tag-topix"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135468","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=135468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}