{"id":215280,"date":"2026-04-30T12:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T12:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/215280\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T12:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T12:08:15","slug":"man-accused-of-beating-up-small-child-in-nyc-park-nypd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/215280\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of beating up small child in NYC park: NYPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRONX, N.Y. (PIX11) \u2014 Police are searching for a man accused of attacking a 9-year-old boy in the Bronx on April 17.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened around 6 p.m. in Grant Park at East 169th Street and Grant Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/\" class=\"promo-link__link\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\tDiscover more local reporting on our homepage\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police say the victim was punched multiple times in the face. The victim was also hit in the face with a cable charger.<\/p>\n<p>The boy suffered a laceration to the face and was taken to a local hospital by EMS.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect fled north on Sheridan Avenue. The NYPD released the following video of the individual.<\/p>\n<p>Credit: NYPD<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact the police.<\/p>\n<p>Submit tips to police by calling Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), visiting\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">crimestoppers.nypdonline.org<\/a>, downloading the NYPD Crime Stoppers mobile app, or texting 274637 (CRIMES) then entering TIP577. Spanish-speaking callers are asked to dial 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).<\/p>\n<p>Ben Mitchell is a digital content producer from Vermont who has covered both local and international news since 2021. He joined PIX11 in 2024. See more of his work <a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/author\/ben-mitchell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRONX, N.Y. (PIX11) \u2014 Police are searching for a man accused of attacking a 9-year-old boy in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-215280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215280","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=215280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}