{"id":308407,"date":"2026-07-29T07:58:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T07:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/308407\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T07:58:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T07:58:19","slug":"student-shoved-into-wall-at-queens-school-by-hammer-wielding-man-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/308407\/","title":{"rendered":"Student shoved into wall at Queens school by hammer-wielding man \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An 8-year-old student was assaulted outside his Jewish day school in Queens \u2014 but school officials and the NYPD said it was not believed to be a hate crime.<\/p>\n<p>The child, a student at The Jewish Institute of Queens on Woodhaven Boulevard, suffered a head laceration in the front yard of the Rego Park school after being shoved into a wall by a hammer-wielding man chasing a woman Tuesday morning, according to local officials.<\/p>\n<p>Council Member Phil Wong said police told him the school did not appear to have been the intended target.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An emotionally disturbed individual allegedly chased a college-aged woman with a hammer from the 110 Precinct into the 112 Precinct, where she ran into the front yard of the institute seeking refuge,&#8221;\u00a0Wong said.<\/p>\n<p>A school official told NBC New York the incident was scary but expressed gratitude for their security guard who &#8220;heroically&#8221; stopped the man from entering the building.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD said a 42-year-old man was taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p>The injured student was taken to the hospital for treatment and was in stable condition, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 8-year-old student was assaulted outside his Jewish day school in Queens \u2014 but school officials and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-308407","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\/308407","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=308407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}