Police are searching for at least 15 boys \u2013 all believed to be teenagers -who allegedly robbed an 18-year-old man at knifepoint in Dyker Heights. <\/p>\n
It happened shortly before 10 p.m. Sunday on 8th Avenue and 66th Street near the Leif Ericson Park playground. <\/p>\n
Police said the group assaulted the victim, pointed knives at him, then took his jacket and ran away. <\/p>\n
Video given exclusively to News 12 showed the victim walking up and getting into an ambulance before police arrived on scene. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was really messy,\u201d said one witness who asked not to be identified. \u201cI couldn\u2019t really see the details. Five, 10 seconds later, [the attackers] just started running away from the [victim]. They were yelling.\u201d <\/p>\n
The witness said at least three of the alleged attackers were on mopeds. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe people that are on mopeds, I think they went down [the block] or they went to the right, because there\u2019s an exit on the side of the park,\u201d said the witness. \u201cThe people that were on feet just started running all over the place.\u201d <\/p>\n
As of Monday night, it was unknown what led to the incident. <\/p>\n
\u201c[It\u2019s] something regular that\u2019s happening in Brooklyn,\u201d said the witness. \u201cThis is not that uncommon over here.\u201d <\/p>\n
Police said the victim was taken to Lutheran Hospital and is expected to make a full recovery. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are searching for at least 15 boys \u2013 all believed to be teenagers -who allegedly robbed an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-196112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-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\/196112","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=196112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}