{"id":234916,"date":"2026-05-18T03:27:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T03:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/234916\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T03:27:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T03:27:36","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-man-wanted-for-choking-7-year-old-assaulting-2-other-kids-in-red-hook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/234916\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Man Wanted For Choking 7 Year Old Assaulting 2 Other Kids In Red Hook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">NYPD detectives are looking for a man who they say choked a 7-year-old child and assaulted two other kids under the age of 13 in Red Hook back on May 11.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Investigators say the man approached a 5-year-old victim, the 7-year-old victim, and a 12-year-old victim inside of the Bush-Clinton Park. <\/p>\n<p>He knocked the 12-year-old and 5-year-old to the ground and choked the 7-year-old. <\/p>\n<p>The victims were treated by EMS.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Sources close to the investigation also say the suspect smashed the phone of the 12-year-old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NYPD detectives are looking for a man who they say choked a 7-year-old child and assaulted two other&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-234916","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\/234916","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=234916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}