An 8-year-old child is recovering after being hurt when an intruder entered the Jewish Institute of Queens Tuesday morning, police said.<\/p>\n
The suspect, 42, is in custody. Charges are pending.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It happened at around 10:50 a.m. at the school on Woodhaven Boulevard and Wetherole Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The intruder was intercepted by security at the school’s door. While he was being escorted off the property, a struggle ensued, according to police. During that struggle, the intruder shoved a child into a fence, causing a laceration on the student’s head.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The student was taken to the hospital and is expected to recover.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police sources said the incident came after the suspect approached a woman on the street. The woman, feeling threatened, went into the school for safety, police sources said. The suspect followed her in, and security intervened.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 8-year-old child is recovering after being hurt when an intruder entered the Jewish Institute of Queens Tuesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-307897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307897","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=307897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}