{"id":281455,"date":"2026-06-29T19:09:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T19:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/281455\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T19:09:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T19:09:42","slug":"bear-spray-empties-400-room-manhattan-hotel-injuring-8-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/281455\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear spray empties 400-room Manhattan hotel, injuring 8, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"misp6\">A dispute in a hotel room involving bear spray led to the evacuation of the 400-room DoubleTree hotel in the Financial District on Monday morning, leaving eight people with minor injuries, police said.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"78sl9\">The bear spray was discharged around 8 a.m. inside a guest room at the hotel at 8 Stone Street, according to police. The dispute spilled into the hallway, where the bear spray spread as well.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"bbdd4\">Firefighters responded to a report of fumes inside the building and the entire hotel was evacuated, the FDNY said.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"91cn6\">No arrests have been made and police said they were still searching for the person responsible. Investigators have not identified anyone involved or said what led to the dispute.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"ad9ng\">Eight people suffered minor injuries, according to the FDNY. Six were evaluated at the scene and declined further treatment.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"c2gfs\">Two service members, a 39-year-old man and a 39-year-old woman, were taken to a nearby hospital in stable condition, according to the NYPD and FDNY.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"fbdcd\">A hotel employee said the building was evacuated for several hours. A manager for the hotel declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"7f1uq\">Police continue to investigate who started the dispute and what led to it.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"fvogm\">This is a developing story and may be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dispute in a hotel room involving bear spray led to the evacuation of the 400-room DoubleTree hotel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-281455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281455","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=281455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}