{"id":228222,"date":"2026-05-12T04:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T04:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/228222\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T04:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T04:39:08","slug":"news-12-long-island-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/228222\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Long Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A 60-year-old man from Brooklyn succumbed to his injuries weeks after he was <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/crown-heights-man-brutally-beaten-in-deli-one-attacker-reportedly-knew-the-victim-sources-say\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">brutally robbed<\/a> and beaten inside a deli in Crown Heights. Police sources say a father-son duo is charged with murder.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Johnsons, both named Devon, are accused of punching and kicking Derrick Watson in the face inside 1380 Eastern Parkway around 12:30 a.m. on April 22. Authorities say they then took Watson&#8217;s wallet and ran away.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">EMS rushed Watson to One Brooklyn Health\u2013Brookdale Hospital Medical Center, where he fought for his life for nearly two weeks.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Authorities say the duo, 18 and 47-years old, both live just steps from the deli where they allegedly carried out the attack.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police sources previously told News 12 that one of the attackers and the victim know each other because they have children by the same woman.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Both Johnsons face additional charges, including manslaughter and robbery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 60-year-old man from Brooklyn succumbed to his injuries weeks after he was brutally robbed and beaten inside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-228222","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\/228222","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=228222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}