{"id":138927,"date":"2026-02-19T17:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/138927\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T17:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:25:09","slug":"masked-man-wanted-for-slashing-a-teen-in-food-court-at-queens-center-mall-nypd-qns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/138927\/","title":{"rendered":"Masked man wanted for slashing a teen in food court at Queens Center Mall: NYPD \u2013 QNS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"848\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/masked-man-wanted-for-allegedly-slashing-a-teen-in-the-food-court-at-the-queens-center-mall-nypd01.j.jpeg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"A teenager was rushed to Elmhurst Hospital with lacerations to his face and hand after he was slashed during a brawl at the Queens Center Mall during a brawl, according to the NYPD.\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A teenager was rushed to Elmhurst Hospital with lacerations to his face and hand after he was slashed during a brawl at the Queens Center Mall during a brawl, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p>QNS file photo (l.); Courtesy of the NYPD<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD is asking for the public\u2019s help in identifying this masked man in connection to a bloody assault in the food court at the Queens Center Mall in January.\n<\/p>\n<p>Detectives from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/nypd\/bureaus\/patrol\/precincts\/110th-precinct.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">110th Precinct<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/neighborhoods\/elmhurst\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elmhurst<\/a> who are investigating the attack have come up with a surveillance image of the suspect who allegedly slashed an 18-year-old male victim with a knife during a brawl in the food court on the afternoon of Saturday, Jan. 31.<\/p>\n<p>Police responded to a 911 call reporting an assault in progress inside 90-15 Queens Blvd. just before 5 p.m. on Jan. 31. Upon their arrival at the scene, officers located an 18-year-old male with a laceration to his right hand and a second smaller laceration above his left eye.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the suspect was among a group of teenagers who were seen running from the food court in an unknown direction.\n<\/p>\n<p>EMS responded to the crime scene and rushed the wounded teenager to Elmhurst Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.\n<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD released the surveillance image of the suspect on Wednesday and described him as having a light complexion. He was last seen wearing a black ski mask, a black hooded winter jacket with a gray stripe across the chest, black pants and black sneakers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-600603\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/masked-man-wanted-for-allegedly-slashing-a-teen-in-the-food-court-at-the-queens-center-mall-nypd02.j.jpeg\" alt=\"Cops are looking for the suspect who allegedly slashed a teen during a brawl in the Queens Center Mall food court.\" width=\"552\" height=\"768\"  \/>Cops are looking for the suspect who allegedly slashed a teen during a brawl in the Queens Center Mall food court.Photo courtesy of the NYPD<\/p>\n<p>A reward of up to $3,500 is being offered for information that leads to his arrest and indictment.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding this 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">crimestoppers.nypdonline.org<\/a> or on X (the platform formerly known as Twitter) @NYPDTips. All calls and messages are strictly confidential.<\/p>\n<p>Through Feb. 15, the 110th Precinct has reported 65 felony assaults so far in 2026, a half dozen fewer than the 71 reported at the same point last year, a decline of 8.5%, according to the most recent CompStat report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenager was rushed to Elmhurst Hospital with lacerations to his face and hand after he was slashed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[10518,211,303,9,24,63,103,104,122,25666,58780,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-138927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-110th-precinct","9":"tag-assault","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nypd","15":"tag-police","16":"tag-queens","17":"tag-queens-center-mall","18":"tag-queens-center-mall-assault","19":"tag-queens-headlines","20":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138927","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=138927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}