{"id":322537,"date":"2026-08-16T14:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T14:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322537\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T14:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T14:20:10","slug":"76-year-old-man-assaulted-after-minor-scooter-collision-in-brooklyn-suspect-sought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322537\/","title":{"rendered":"76-year-old man assaulted after minor scooter collision in Brooklyn; suspect sought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2096-26-assault-71-pct-08-15-26-photo-e1786887104880.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">NEW YORK CITY &#8211; The NYPD is asking for the public\u2019s help in identifying a suspect involved in the assault of an elderly man in Brooklyn on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">A 76-year-old male victim was driving near Midwood Street and Nostrand Avenue when he was involved in a minor collision with a parked, unoccupied motorized scooter.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Following the collision, police say an unidentified individual approached the victim and initiated a verbal dispute. The confrontation escalated when the suspect proceeded to punch and kick the 76-year-old man multiple times throughout his body.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The alleged attacker then got onto the motorized scooter and fled the scene. EMS treated the victim at the scene for minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Investigators are urging anyone with information regarding the identity or whereabouts of the suspect to come forward. Tips can be submitted confidentially by calling the NYPD&#8217;s Crime Stoppers Hotline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from this article was provided by the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\/nyc\/brooklyn\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\/nyc\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York City<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article NEW YORK CITY &#8211; The NYPD is asking for the public\u2019s help in identifying a suspect involved&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[98,850,9,11,10,12,56,63,618],"class_list":["post-322537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-brooklyn","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322537","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=322537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}