{"id":192513,"date":"2026-04-10T18:27:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T18:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/192513\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T18:27:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T18:27:32","slug":"bronx-man-charged-with-assault-for-punching-two-emts-sending-them-to-the-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/192513\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx man charged with assault for punching two EMTs, sending them to the hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Bronx<\/a> man was arrested and charged in Morris Heights after attacking two city Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) sent to aid the man late Thursday evening, police said.<\/p>\n

The first responders were answering a 911 call inside 1889 Sedgwick Ave. around 10 p.m. for a 22-year-old male in need of medical assistance when things turned violent.\n<\/p>\n

The man, Jose Bencosme, who lives inside the building, began punching EMTs who were attempting to render aid, leaving one 32-year-old first responder with a deep head laceration and the other 20-year-old with injuries to the face, according to police.<\/p>\n

Sedgwick Avenue filled with emergency response vehicles after the injured responders put out a distress call. User-generated video on the Citizen App showed around a dozen ambulances lining the street.<\/p>\n

Multiple EMS Workers Assaulted, Person Detained @CitizenApp<\/a><\/p>\n

1889 Sedgwick Ave Yesterday 10:32:39 PM EDT<\/a><\/p>\n

\nThe two men who were attacked were transported to area hospitals and treated for their injuries.\n<\/p>\n

Police charged Bencosme with two counts of assault for the attacks.\n<\/p>\n

AmNewYork confirmed a separate first responder was injured on-site in an accident unrelated to the attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File photo Photo via Getty Images A Bronx man was arrested and charged in Morris Heights…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,211,128,43725,17683,77034,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-192513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-arrest","9":"tag-assault","10":"tag-bronx","11":"tag-bronx-arrest","12":"tag-emt","13":"tag-emt-assaulted","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-the-bronx","18":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","19":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192513","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=192513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}