{"id":235440,"date":"2026-05-18T16:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T16:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/235440\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T16:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T16:18:09","slug":"man-strangles-child-knocks-2-more-down-at-brooklyn-park-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/235440\/","title":{"rendered":"Man strangles child, knocks 2 more down at Brooklyn park, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are looking for the man they say knocked two kids down and strangled another child at a park in Brooklyn.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened when the man approached a 5-year-old girl, 7-year-old boy and 12-year-old boy just before 6:30 p.m. on May 11. The kids were inside Bush-Clinton Park in the Red Hook Recreation Area.<\/p>\n<p>NYPD officials say the man knocked the 5-year-old and 12-year-old to the ground before putting his hands around the 7-year-old&#8217;s neck. Officers said he caused bruising and pain.<\/p>\n<p>The man ran away, and the children were treated by EMS.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD released a photo of the man whom they are looking for.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/a25fa4cc-114c-48fe-89f2-b4685e3995fd.png#.png\" alt=\"a25fa4cc-114c-48fe-89f2-b4685e3995fd.png \" height=\"1021\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Police are looking for a man who allegedly pushed two children to the ground and choked another.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                NYPD<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the NYPD&#8217;s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the <a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Crime Stoppers website<\/a> or on X @NYPDTips.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are looking for the man they say knocked two kids down and strangled another child at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63,103],"class_list":["post-235440","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-nypd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235440","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=235440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}