{"id":314345,"date":"2026-08-05T15:10:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314345\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T15:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T15:10:06","slug":"brooklyn-strangler-sought-for-attacking-woman-inside-bodega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314345\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn strangler sought for attacking woman inside bodega"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"827\" height=\"494\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_4955.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"suspected brooklyn strangler who attacked woman\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Brooklyn strangler sought for attacking woman inside bodega 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say they are on the hunt for a thug who strangled a woman during an Independence Day attack inside of a Brooklyn deli last month.<\/p>\n<p>NYPD<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Cops are looking for the <a href=\"https:\/\/amny.com\/brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Brooklyn<\/a> strangler who attacked a woman at a grocery store during an Independence Day assault.\n<\/p>\n<p>According to police sources, the incident unfolded at around 9:20 p.m. inside the Progreso Latino deli near Fort Hamilton Parkway and 45th Street in Borough Park. <\/p>\n<p>Police reported that the perpetrator approached the 21-year-old woman inside the store and grabbed her by the neck with both hands. The victim and the suspect are acquaintances, sources said. The reason for the assault remains unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement sources said the woman managed to break free of the man\u2019s clutches. The suspect then fled the store in an unknown direction.\n<\/p>\n<p>Officers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypd66pct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">66th Precinct<\/a> responded to the incident. The victim suffered pain and difficulty breathing, but refused medical attention.\n<\/p>\n<p>So far, no arrests have been made in the ongoing investigation. Police said the suspect was last seen wearing a black tank top and a black Chicago White Sox baseball cap.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding this incident can call Crime Stoppers at\u00a0800-577-TIPS\u00a0(for Spanish, dial 888-57-PISTA). You can also submit tips online at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">crimestoppers.nypdonline.org<\/a>, or on X (formerly Twitter)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypdtips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@NYPDTips<\/a>. All calls and messages are kept confidential.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities say they are on the hunt for a thug who strangled a woman during an Independence Day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[211,98,9,11,10,103,104],"class_list":["post-314345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-assault","tag-brooklyn","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-nypd","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314345","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=314345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}