{"id":299811,"date":"2026-07-19T02:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T02:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/299811\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T02:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T02:36:09","slug":"bryant-park-man-accused-of-hurling-cell-phone-at-mother-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/299811\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryant Park man accused of hurling cell phone at mother, baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A crazed homeless man went on a rampage in Manhattan\u2019s Bryant Park Saturday in which he hurled a cell phone at a mother and her infant in a stroller \u2014 striking the child in the arm, cops said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"40026742\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2284229412.jpg\" alt=\"People sit under large green and beige umbrellas in Bryant Park.\" class=\"wp-image-40026742\"  \/>People try to stay cool during a heat wave in Bryant Park in Manhattan on July 01, 2026 in New York City.  Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Around 10:00 a.m. Saturday, 49-year-old Marc Okon allegedly targeted the stroller near Sixth Avenue and West 41st Street, striking the baby girl in the left arm with a cell phone and causing visible redness.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.41828255;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"40026743\" width=\"837\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/192315878__08152020_z_R4A6047.jpg\" alt=\"NYPD Critical Response Command (CRC) team vehicles parked outside Bryant Park in Manhattan.\" class=\"wp-image-40026743\"  \/>NYPD CRC (Critical Response Command ) team outside Bryant Park this morning in Manhattan, New York, U.S., August 15, 2020 Rashid Umar Abbasi<\/p>\n<p>Okon, who is homeless, then reportedly retrieved the device and threw it again at the 39-year-old mother, though the phone missed its mark.<\/p>\n<p>Police took Okon into custody at the scene, charging him with assault, endangering the welfare of a child, and reckless endangerment.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the victims did not know Okon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A crazed homeless man went on a rampage in Manhattan\u2019s Bryant Park Saturday in which he hurled a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[357,8705,3759,2000,57,9,24,55,54,56,58],"class_list":["post-299811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-assaults","tag-baby","tag-bryant-park","tag-homelessness","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299811","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=299811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}