{"id":256396,"date":"2026-06-05T14:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T14:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/256396\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T14:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T14:34:09","slug":"senior-98-beaten-with-broomstick-during-clash-on-brooklyn-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/256396\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior, 98, beaten with broomstick during clash on Brooklyn street"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 98-year-old man was repeatedly punched and beaten with a broomstick by a woman during a brazen daylight attack on a Brooklyn street, police<\/a> said Friday.<\/p>\n

Cops have released a video of the woman in the hopes someone recognizes her. The attack comes as the NYPD investigates a troubling string of chilling assaults against older New Yorkers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The senior just entered a building on Maple St. near Rogers Ave. in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens just before 4 p.m. Thursday when he got into an argument with a woman stuffing flyers into residential mailboxes, police said.<\/p>\n

As they yelled at each other, the woman punched the elderly man in the back of the head, then beat the senior with a broomstick and a metal chair, cops said.<\/p>\n

She then ran east on Maple St., cops said. The woman was last seen wearing a dark blue jacket, grey sweatpants, and was sporting a backpack.<\/p>\n

The senior suffered minor injuries and was treated at the scene.<\/p>\n

It was not immediately disclosed what the two were arguing about when the attack took place. The victim, a police source said, turned down an offer to canvass the area with local cops to find the woman.<\/p>\n

Cops recovered doorbell camera footage of the woman stuffing fliers in mailboxes before the attack. Detectives released the footage on Friday, hoping someone recognizes her.<\/p>\n

\"FrontFront page of the Daily News for June 3, 2026.<\/p>\n

On Monday outside of Union Square Park, cops arrested 29-year-old Paris Valentine, who was accused of shoving an 85-year-old woman face first into the ground in an unprovoked attack.<\/p>\n

The senior suffered a serious brain injury and was put into an induced coma after surgery. Her family says even if she survives, she may never fully recover .<\/p>\n

A day earlier in Brooklyn, an 83-year-old woman was slashed in the neck on her way to church after politely greeting a homeless man<\/a>\u00a0who attacked her without warning.<\/p>\n

Betty Ellerbe was waiting for an Uber about 11:25 a.m. Sunday when her attacker rounded the corner of her Brownsville apartment building located near Glenmore and Christopher Aves.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s always out there walking around and talking to himself,\u201d Ellerbe told The News in an exclusive interview from her bedside at Brookdale Hospital. \u201cHe came around the corner and I said, \u2018Hello.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Just last month, a homeless man who had just been released from Bellevue Hospital\u2019s psychiatric ward the same day\u00a0fatally shoved 76-year-old retired kindergarten teacher<\/a>\u00a0Ross Falzone down a flight of stairs at a Chelsea subway station in a random attack. Cops nabbed suspect Rhamell Burke, 32, the next day.<\/p>\n

And about 11:30 a.m. March 8, 83-year-old Air Force veteran Richard Williams was waiting on the downtown platform for the F and Q trains at the Lexington Ave.-63rd St. station when he was shoved onto the tracks. Moments before, the assailant had pushed a 30-year-old man standing next to Williams onto the tracks as well without saying a word, cops said. Williams\u00a0died of his injuries<\/a>\u00a0less than two weeks later.<\/p>\n

Back in February, just two blocks from where Monday\u2019s victim was attacked, an 88-year-old woman was\u00a0shoved to the ground and robbed of her\u00a0<\/a>cane<\/a>, cops said. The woman was shoved onto the pavement outside the Target store on Union Square East at E. 14th St.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information regarding the suspect in Thursday\u2019s attack is urged to call NYPD Crime Stoppers<\/a> at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 98-year-old man was repeatedly punched and beaten with a broomstick by a woman during a brazen daylight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-256396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256396","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=256396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}