{"id":211363,"date":"2026-04-27T16:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T16:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/211363\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T16:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T16:50:08","slug":"man-in-mercedes-van-attacks-5-strangers-in-wild-30-minute-queens-assault-spree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/211363\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in Mercedes van attacks 5 strangers in wild 30-minute Queens assault spree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A crazed man went on a wild assault spree in Queens, attacking five strangers in a matter of minutes before he was arrested, <a href=\"https:\/\/compstat.nypdonline.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police<\/a> said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The mayhem began when the attacker, behind the wheel of a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van, threw a hard object into the windshield of another vehicle near Forest Parkway and Park Lane on the edge of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycgovparks.org\/parks\/forest-park\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Forest Park<\/a> in Woodhaven about 4:05 p.m. Sunday, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old woman driving the other vehicle was not badly hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Just 14 minutes later, police said, just a few blocks away near 85th Road and 87th St., the attacker approached on foot a 33-year-old man, punched him in the face and tried to rip a chain from his neck, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>A 66-year-old Good Samaritan intervened and succeeded in preventing the robbery but the attacker punched him a number of times in the face.<\/p>\n<p>The attacker then got back in his van and at 4:30 p.m. got out of the van nearby to confront a 75-year-old man, punching him numerous times in the head before again driving off against traffic and crashing into a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The attacker got out of the van and punched the 74-year-old driver in the face, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Cops then caught up with the 32-year-old suspect and arrested him. Charges were pending Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Four of the victims were treated for minor injuries at <a href=\"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jamaica Hospital<\/a>. The would-be robbery victim did not need medical attention after being punched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A crazed man went on a wild assault spree in Queens, attacking five strangers in a matter of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,10,12,63,261,122,124,123,265],"class_list":["post-211363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211363","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=211363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}