{"id":285849,"date":"2026-07-03T13:55:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T13:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/285849\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T13:55:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T13:55:41","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-man-dead-after-being-punched-in-the-face-in-east-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/285849\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Man Dead After Being Punched In The Face In East New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A 52-year-old man was punched in the face and has died of his injuries late Thursday night in East New York. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police responded to a call of an assault at Pitkin Avenue and Van Siclen Avenue just before 8:20 p.m. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">When police arrived, they found the 52-year-old man unconscious and unresponsive. Police were informed that the victim had been punched in the face and fell to the ground. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">EMS transported the man to Brookdale Hospital where he was pronounced deceased. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police have identified Kemal Karakatal as the victim. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police sources say they are looking for a man wearing a white tank top, white shorts, white socks and black Crocs. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">There are no arrests and the investigation is ongoing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 52-year-old man was punched in the face and has died of his injuries late Thursday night in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-285849","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\/285849","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=285849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}