{"id":303221,"date":"2026-07-22T20:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/303221\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T20:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:55:08","slug":"brooklyn-park-police-to-form-task-force-after-2nd-home-invasion-sexual-assault-in-1-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/303221\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Park police to form task force after 2nd home invasion, sexual assault in 1 week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, say they are forming a task force after the second incident in a week in which a man entered a home and sexually assaulted a woman at gunpoint.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, officers responded to the 7500 block of Jersey Avenue North at approximately 6:30 a.m. Wednesday. Officers learned that the alleged assault had happened an hour earlier, and the suspect had fled the scene before police arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Brooklyn Park police said a man broke into a home on the 7600 block of Hampshire Avenue North \u2014 blocks away from Wednesday morning&#8217;s incident \u2014 and sexually assaulted a woman.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The woman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/minnesota\/news\/woman-held-at-gunpoint-brooklyn-park-home-invasion\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told WCCO<\/a> that she woke up just before 5 a.m. to see a man standing in her bedroom with a gun. She said he tied her mouth and hands and demanded money before assaulting her.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police have not said if the two incidents are connected.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say they are asking the public to secure all doors and windows and check security cameras for any evidence of people lurking near homes in the last week.<\/p>\n<p>This story will be updated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Note: The above video first aired on July 17, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Sexual Assault Resources<\/p>\n<p>General Sites for information related to sexual assault and resources throughout Minnesota:<\/p>\n<p>General Sexual Assault Websites:<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, say they are forming a task force after the second incident in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,7942,9,24,63,3019],"class_list":["post-303221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-brooklyn-park-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-sexual-assault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303221","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=303221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}