{"id":214737,"date":"2026-04-29T22:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T22:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/214737\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T22:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T22:51:07","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-crown-heights-man-brutally-beaten-in-deli-one-attacker-reportedly-knew-the-victim-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/214737\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Crown Heights Man Brutally Beaten In Deli One Attacker Reportedly Knew The Victim Sources Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say a 60-year-old man is fighting for his life after being attacked and robbed inside a Crown Heights deli on Eastern Parkway on April 22.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Around 12:30 a.m. last Wednesday, sources say three attackers followed the 60-year-old man into the deli, punching and kicking him in the face and taking his wallet before running away. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">EMS took the victim to One Brooklyn Health\u2013Brookdale Hospital Medical Center, where he is still in critical condition a week later.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Sources close to the investigation say one of the attackers and the victim know each other as they have children by the same woman. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Jane Yearwood says people in the community have heard about it and are concerned.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;I feel so bad for him. That wasn&#8217;t good at all. I heard he couldn&#8217;t breathe and that they had to perform CPR on him. That was surprising to hear that he was 60 years old,&#8221; said Yearwood.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Anyone with information is urged to call the NYPD&#8217;s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say a 60-year-old man is fighting for his life after being attacked and robbed inside a Crown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-214737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214737","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=214737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}