{"id":256356,"date":"2026-06-05T13:52:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/256356\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T13:52:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:52:42","slug":"man-98-beaten-with-broom-and-metal-chair-in-brooklyn-woman-sought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/256356\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 98, beaten with broom and metal chair in Brooklyn; woman sought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (1010 WINS) &#8212; A 98-year-old man was beaten with a broomstick and a metal chair in an attack in Brooklyn, police said Friday as they released images of the woman they\u2019re searching for.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was entering a residential building at Maple Street and Rogers Avenue in Prospect Lefferts Gardens around 3:50 p.m. Thursday when he was approached by a woman distributing flyers, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The two of them got into an argument, and she attacked him, according to cops.<\/p>\n<p>She allegedly punched and kicked him repeatedly, then used a broomstick and a metal chair to strike him.<\/p>\n<p>She fled the scene on foot, police said. EMS treated the victim for minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (1010 WINS) &#8212; A 98-year-old man was beaten with a broomstick and a metal chair in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63,103,7127],"class_list":["post-256356","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","tag-prospect-lefferts-gardens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256356","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=256356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}