{"id":234957,"date":"2026-05-18T05:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T05:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/234957\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T05:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T05:34:08","slug":"police-man-strangles-7-year-old-boy-knocks-down-5-year-old-girl-and-12-year-old-boy-in-brooklyn-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/234957\/","title":{"rendered":"Police: Man strangles 7-year-old boy, knocks down 5-year-old girl and 12-year-old boy in Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police are looking for a man who they say strangled a 7-year-old boy in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The man is also accused of knocking a 5-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy to the ground during the encounter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It happened last Monday inside Bush-Clinton Park in the Red Hook recreation area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 7-year-old was left with bruising and pain on his neck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police have not said what preceded the attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are looking for a man who they say strangled a 7-year-old boy in Brooklyn. The man is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63,104],"class_list":["post-234957","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","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234957","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=234957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}