{"id":16324,"date":"2025-10-25T15:20:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T15:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/16324\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T15:20:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T15:20:40","slug":"victim-of-bushwick-home-invasion-speaks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/16324\/","title":{"rendered":"Victim of Bushwick home invasion speaks out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a News 12 exclusive, the victim of a home invasion in Bushwick said he was assaulted on Thursday night by two men, one of whom was carrying a knife.<\/p>\n<p>Kevlin Genao said, thankfully, he was not stabbed, but he was punched and kicked, and his face is now swollen.<\/p>\n<p>He told News 12 that it all started when he heard a knock at his door. He did not see anyone through the peephole but opened the door anyway and found two men at his doorstep.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne guy had a knife,\u201d said Genao. \u201cWhat can I do? I said, \u2018Bro, you got it. We could talk this out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance video showed the two alleged attackers wearing dark clothing and ski masks while walking into the apartment building.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey knocked me down to the floor,\u201d said Genao. \u201cThey started kicking me. They threw my desk on top of me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police said the assault happened around 6:30 p.m. at the Hope Gardens apartments <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/man-attacked-in-bushwick-apartment-second-brooklyn-home-invasion-in-under-24-hours\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">on Evergreen Avenue<\/a> near Eldert Street.<\/p>\n<p>Genao said he moved into the complex one year ago, and there are issues with neighbors banging and yelling through the walls.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old said he believes this was a case of mistaken identity and had never seen the men before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey said, \u2018Oh, so you like to bang on doors?\u2019 said Genao. \u201cI\u2019m pretty sure I even heard one of the guys saying, \u2018My grandma lives right there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Genao said the men did not steal from him, but he is looking to press charges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf somebody\u2019s knocking on your door and you don\u2019t know who it is, make sure you have some sort of protection, have some sort of pepper spray because people nowadays,\u201d said Genao. \u201cEverybody\u2019s struggling and some people are just looking for the easy way out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wavecrest Management released the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Wavecrest Management, we are dedicated to providing safe and secure living spaces for all our residents. We will collaborate directly with the NYPD and other authorities to follow all standard protocols and support the investigation in any way that we can.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a News 12 exclusive, the victim of a home invasion in Bushwick said he was assaulted on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[6722,211,98,100,99,9449,10778,745,9,24,63,103,6399,8647,1954],"class_list":{"0":"post-16324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-apartments","9":"tag-assault","10":"tag-brooklyn","11":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","12":"tag-brooklyn-news","13":"tag-bushwick","14":"tag-home-invasion","15":"tag-investigation","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-nypd","20":"tag-police-investigation","21":"tag-search","22":"tag-surveillance-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16324","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=16324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}