{"id":148278,"date":"2026-02-28T11:56:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T11:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/148278\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T11:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T11:56:18","slug":"man-with-umbrella-whacks-woman-in-random-ues-attack-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/148278\/","title":{"rendered":"Man with umbrella whacks woman in random UES attack: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmm59i6b6003k01vp4of2elvq@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">New York (1010 WINS) &#8212; The NYPD released surveillance images Friday of a man suspected of randomly attacking a woman with an umbrella on the Upper East Side last week.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmm59i81p000h3b7xu20g343w@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">The victim, a 24-year-old woman, was at the northeast corner of East 68th Street and First Avenue around 4:25 p.m. last Friday, Feb. 20, when the man assaulted her from behind, police said.<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/50026-Assault-19-Pct-022026-Photo-2-copy-63ba2174-0644-42cd-9a66-c4af5a9836a9.png\" alt=\"The suspect was last seen headed southbound on First Avenue towards 67th Street\"\/><\/p>\n<p>      The suspect was last seen headed southbound on First Avenue towards 67th Street.<\/p>\n<p>      Photo credit NYPD<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmm59i88v000i3b7xxo7oupk5@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">He used an umbrella to bash her on the back, according to police. She suffered pain but declined further medical attention.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmm59i8a7000j3b7xjkwi7v9o@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">The suspect was last seen headed southbound on First Avenue towards 67th Street. Video shows him walking down the street, swinging the umbrella.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.audacy.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmm59i8bg000k3b7x82pgie7h@published\" data-editable=\"text\" class=\"paragraph paragraph--station\">Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.<\/p>\n<p>\n          Featured Image Photo Credit: NYPD\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York (1010 WINS) &#8212; The NYPD released surveillance images Friday of a man suspected of randomly attacking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-148278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-manhattan","9":"tag-manhattan-headlines","10":"tag-manhattan-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148278","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=148278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}