{"id":257457,"date":"2026-06-06T12:56:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T12:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/257457\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T12:56:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T12:56:45","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-woman-arrested-accused-of-assaulting-98-year-old-in-prospect-lefferts-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/257457\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Woman Arrested Accused Of Assaulting 98 Year Old In Prospect Lefferts Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A woman has been arrested in connection with the assault of a 98\u2011year\u2011old man inside a Prospect Lefferts Gardens apartment building, according to police.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The suspect has been identified as 27\u2011year\u2011old Tashara Abel.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">She is charged with assault, burglary and criminal possession of a weapon.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\"><a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/woman-on-the-run-after-98-year-old-man-attacked-with-chair-broomstick-in-prospect-lefferts-building\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News12 covered the story<\/a> on Friday, when police were asking for the public&#8217;s assistance in identifying the woman. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say the incident happened around 4 p.m. Thursday inside a residential building near Maple Street and Rogers Avenue.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Investigators report that the victim had just entered the building when he became involved in an argument with a woman. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The confrontation escalated, and the woman punched and kicked him before striking him with a broomstick and a metal chair. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">She then left the building and headed east on Maple Street. The victim suffered minor injuries and was treated at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The incident occurred during a recent series of assaults involving older residents in Brooklyn, including separate attacks on a 72\u2011year\u2011old man in Brownsville and an 83\u2011year\u2011old woman who was slashed while walking to church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has been arrested in connection with the assault of a 98\u2011year\u2011old man inside a Prospect Lefferts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-257457","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257457","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=257457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}