{"id":274412,"date":"2026-06-22T20:34:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T20:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/274412\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T20:34:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T20:34:41","slug":"5-muggers-repeatedly-stab-man-in-botched-nyc-robbery-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/274412\/","title":{"rendered":"5 muggers repeatedly stab man in botched NYC robbery: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five muggers ambushed a 58-year-old passer-by and viciously stabbed him three times in The Bronx on Sunday \u2014 and still didn\u2019t manage to make off with anything, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The violent crew repeatedly knifed the victim in the back and punched and kicked him during the 7:20 p.m. attempted robbery on Webster Avenue near East 167th Street in Morrisania, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The ruffians were looking to empty the victim\u2019s pockets of cash but got away with nothing, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"TheA 58-year-old man was violently mugged on Webster Avenue near the corner of East 167th Street in The Bronx on Sunday, cops said.<\/p>\n

The battered victim was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The suspects ran off on East 167th Street and had not been caught by Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was not immediately clear whether the victim knew his attackers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The brutal incident took place in the confines of the NYPD\u2019s 42nd Precinct, where robberies have seen about a 33 percent decrease so far this year, according to the latest department data.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A total of 139 robberies were reported within the precinct\u2019s boundaries through Sunday, compared to 207 during the same period in 2025, statistics show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five muggers ambushed a 58-year-old passer-by and viciously stabbed him three times in The Bronx on Sunday \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,303,57,11183,9,24,63,2442,129,131,130,58],"class_list":["post-274412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-crime","tag-metro","tag-mugging","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-stabbings","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274412","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=274412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}