{"id":279784,"date":"2026-06-27T11:07:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T11:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/279784\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T11:07:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T11:07:42","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-73-year-old-man-struck-in-head-with-metal-pipe-in-bensonhurst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/279784\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | 73 Year Old Man Struck In Head With Metal Pipe In Bensonhurst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD is asking for the public\u2019s help identifying a man wanted in connection with an assault in Bensonhurst on June 20.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say that around 5:30 p.m., a 73\u2011year\u2011old man was at Milestone Park, at 82nd Street and 18th Avenue, when an unidentified individual approached him and a verbal dispute began.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The individual then struck the victim in the head with a metal pipe.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The attacker fled the scene on a bicycle, heading westbound on 82nd Street.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The victim was taken to a local hospital in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The suspect is described as a male with a light complexion, last seen wearing a black baseball cap, dark jacket, beige pants and white sneakers.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Anyone with information is asked to contact Crime Stoppers at 1\u2011800\u2011577\u2011TIPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NYPD is asking for the public\u2019s help identifying a man wanted in connection with an assault in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-279784","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\/279784","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=279784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}