{"id":202631,"date":"2026-04-19T16:07:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T16:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202631\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T16:07:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T16:07:15","slug":"central-park-jogger-attack-stunned-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202631\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Park jogger attack stunned New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) &#8211; On April 19, 1989, a brutal attack in Central Park shocked New York City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A 28-year-old jogger, Trisha Meili, was beaten and sexually assaulted. She was left in a ravine with a shattered skull and little chance of survival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Five teenagers from Harlem, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, and Korey Wise, known as the Central Park Five, were quickly arrested and later convicted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Years later, DNA evidence and a confession from another man cleared them, overturning their convictions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/newsletter\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/newsletter\/\">Click here<\/a> to sign up for our newsletter!<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfpc96d0EDHinF_AovDBi4RNoKbBfRbCIJiTWqF7p1VNE6ZNA\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here<\/a> to report a spelling or grammar error. Please include the headline.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WMC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) &#8211; On April 19, 1989, a brutal attack in Central Park shocked New York City.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[59391,4022,80271,65538,65535,80270,4770,3025,80269,9417,65533,65537,9,24,55,54,7004,26318,65536,56,42095,806,65539,80268,65540,65534,65530,65532,65531],"class_list":{"0":"post-202631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-bartlett","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-central-park-jogger-attack","11":"tag-collierville","12":"tag-east-arkansas","13":"tag-five-teen","14":"tag-germantown","15":"tag-i-40","16":"tag-jogger","17":"tag-memphis","18":"tag-mid-south","19":"tag-missouri-boothill","20":"tag-new-york","21":"tag-new-york-city","22":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","23":"tag-new-york-city-news","24":"tag-newyork","25":"tag-newyorkcity","26":"tag-north-mississippi","27":"tag-ny","28":"tag-olive-branch","29":"tag-severe-weather","30":"tag-southaven","31":"tag-the-central-park-five","32":"tag-west-memphis","33":"tag-west-tennessee","34":"tag-wmc-action-news-5","35":"tag-wmc5","36":"tag-wmctv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202631","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=202631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}