{"id":256761,"date":"2026-06-05T20:10:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T20:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/256761\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T20:10:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T20:10:45","slug":"98-year-old-man-attacked-with-broomstick-metal-chair-in-brooklyn-altercation-nypd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/256761\/","title":{"rendered":"98-year-old man attacked with broomstick, metal chair in Brooklyn altercation, NYPD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York City police are searching for a suspect accused to attacking a 98-year-old man with a broomstick and metal chair during an altercation Thursday in Brooklyn.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD said the elderly man was assaulted after getting into an argument with a person handing out flyers in the lobby of a residential building near Maple St. and Rogers Ave. in Prospect Lefferts Gardens.  <\/p>\n<p>The person punched and kicked the nonagenarian multiple times before striking him with a broomstick and metal chair, investigators said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They had approached the elderly man just before the argument ensued and then ran from the building afterwards, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>EMS was called and treated the victim for minor injuries, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with any information is asked to call the NYPD&#8217;s Crime Stoppers hotline at\u00a01-800-577-TIPS (8477), or for Spanish,\u00a01-888-57-PISTA (74782). You can also submit a tip\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">via their website<\/a>\u00a0or via DM on Twitter,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nypdtips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@NYPDTips<\/a>. All calls are kept confidential.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City police are searching for a suspect accused to attacking a 98-year-old man with a broomstick&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63,7127],"class_list":["post-256761","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-prospect-lefferts-gardens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256761","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=256761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}