{"id":312980,"date":"2026-08-03T23:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T23:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/312980\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T23:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T23:52:10","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-65-year-old-man-bitten-in-the-face-during-attack-in-brownsville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/312980\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | 65 Year Old Man Bitten In The Face During Attack In Brownsville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A 65-year-old man was bitten in the face by another man during an attack in Brownsville, police say.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to the NYPD, the man walked up to the victim and started an argument in front of 241 Rockaway Parkway around 11:30 p.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say the man then bit the 65-year-old on the left cheek and punched him in the face multiple times before taking off running.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD released images of the alleged assailant, who was pictured wearing a brown Champion brand T-shirt, a black backwards baseball cap, tan shorts and black sneakers.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The victim turned down medical attention at the scene, according to police.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Anyone with information is urged to call the NYPD&#8217;s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 65-year-old man was bitten in the face by another man during an attack in Brownsville, police say.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-312980","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\/312980","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=312980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}