{"id":341707,"date":"2026-09-09T11:44:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T11:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/341707\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T11:44:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T11:44:49","slug":"man-beaten-to-death-in-broad-daylight-with-wooden-plank-in-queens-park-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/341707\/","title":{"rendered":"Man beaten to death in broad daylight with wooden plank in Queens park \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have increased patrols around a Queens park after investigators said a man was beaten to death with a wooded plank. <\/p>\n<p>A 53-year-old man suffered major head wounds after being several beaten by a suspect carrying a two-by-four, law enforcement sources said. He died at a nearby hospital<\/p>\n<p>Police said the beating happened in Rufus King Park around 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Investigators are still searching for the suspect, who they believe grabbed the wooden plank from debris in the park. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a park I go to all the time,&#8221; said Ami Mulbah. &#8220;It\u2019s usually super safe. I\u2019m actually quite shocked that there was a homicide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gabriela Soto walks through the park before and after work every day and said earlier this summer she flagged down police after seeing a woman carrying a large wooden two-by-four threatening people. It&#8217;s not clear if there is any link to Tuesday&#8217;s killing. <\/p>\n<p>\u200b&#8221;There\u2019s this woman around here that was walking around with a big piece of wood. Not like a tree, not like a stick,&#8221; Soto said. &#8220;She was trying to just get someone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Several neighbors who frequent the park said its a great place to visit, though some said there are people you come by to drink and get high. <\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement sources said the man they\u2019re looking for was wearing white pants and a blue shirt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have increased patrols around a Queens park after investigators said a man was beaten to death with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-341707","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\/341707","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=341707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}