{"id":158807,"date":"2026-03-10T03:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T03:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/158807\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T03:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T03:35:11","slug":"nyc-barbershop-owner-encountered-accused-gracie-mansion-attacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/158807\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC barbershop owner encountered accused Gracie Mansion attacker"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPPER EAST SIDE, Manhattan (PIX11) \u2014 Video obtained by PIX11 News shows the moment that two teens accused of throwing explosive devices<\/a> into a crowd of protesters outside Grace Mansion arrived in Manhattan.<\/p>\n

Moments before officials say the so-called \u201cMother of Satan\u201d improvised explosive devices<\/a> were deployed into the crowd, barbershop owner Boris Kopolovich encountered one of the terror suspects.<\/p>\n

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19-year-old Ibrahim Kayumi<\/a> made a pit stop inside Kopolovich\u2019s shop Saturday afternoon for a bathroom break. Surveillance video obtained by PIX11 shows Kayumi and Emir Balat, 18, parking their car on East End Avenue.<\/p>\n

Pointing at a picture of Kayumi, Kopolovich said, \u201cThis is the guy who came in to use the bathroom.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his wife were not at Gracie Mansion at the time of the alleged ISIS-inspired attack.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet me say this plainly. Anyone who comes to New York City to bring violence to our streets will be held accountable in accordance with the law,\u201d Mamdani said Monday.<\/p>\n

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For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPPER EAST SIDE, Manhattan (PIX11) \u2014 Video obtained by PIX11 News shows the moment that two teens accused…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[65501,65060,65502,8409,64887,75,9,56,63,65,64,329,1954,466,82],"class_list":["post-158807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-boris-kopolovich","tag-explosive-devices","tag-grace-mansion","tag-gracie-mansion","tag-ibrahim-kayumi","tag-manhattan","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-pix11","tag-surveillance-video","tag-upper-east-side","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158807","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=158807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}