{"id":234928,"date":"2026-05-18T03:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T03:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/234928\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T03:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T03:58:08","slug":"sicko-wanted-for-shoving-group-of-children-choking-7-year-old-boy-in-nyc-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/234928\/","title":{"rendered":"Sicko wanted for shoving group of children, choking 7-year-old boy in NYC park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are searching for a sicko who allegedly shoved a group of kids to the ground and choked a boy inside a Brooklyn park.<\/p>\n<p>The unidentified man approached a 5-year-old girl, a 7-year-old boy and a 12-year-old boy inside Bush-Clinton Park in the Red Hook Recreation Area just before 6:30 p.m. last Monday, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p>He then knocked the 12-year-old boy and the 5-year-old girl to the ground \u2014 before alarmingly grabbing the 7-year-old boy\u2019s neck and attempting to strangle him, cops said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.60735469;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39410330\" width=\"358\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1826-hours-inside-bush-clinton-128088707.jpg\" alt=\"A cropped image of an individual sought by the NYPD, wearing a blue shirt and black shorts, walking on a street.\" class=\"wp-image-39410330\"  \/>Police are searching for a creep who allegedly shoved a group of kids to the ground and choked a boy inside Bush-Clinton Park on Monday, May 11. DCPI<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.36351531;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39410332\" width=\"804\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1826-hours-inside-bush-clinton-128090740.jpg\" alt=\"Bush Clinton Playground with a car in the foreground.\" class=\"wp-image-39410332\"  \/>He knocked the 12-year-old boy and the 5-year-old girl to the ground \u2014 before alarmingly grabbing the 7-year-old boy\u2019s neck and attempting to strangle him. Google maps<\/p>\n<p>The bully \u2014 pictured in photos in a blue T-shirt, black shorts, and grey and orange athletic sneakers \u2014 then fled the scene on foot, police added.<\/p>\n<p>EMS workers treated the trio of kids, including the 7-year-old boy who sustained bruising and pain from the choking. It\u2019s unclear if the children\u2019s parents were with them at the time of the assault.<\/p>\n<p>The shocking incident happened on the same day a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/12\/us-news\/woman-wanted-for-shoving-special-needs-boy-7-to-the-ground-on-nyc-street\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">woman allegedly shoved a 7-year-old special needs boy<\/a> to the ground while he was walking beside his mother at the intersection of Kissena Boulevard and Maple Avenue in Queens.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding the Brooklyn incident is asked to call the NYPD\u2019s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are searching for a sicko who allegedly shoved a group of kids to the ground and choked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[357,98,57,9,56,63,65,64,18392,12029,58],"class_list":["post-234928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-assaults","tag-brooklyn","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-red-hook","tag-strangulation","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234928","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=234928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}