{"id":349546,"date":"2026-09-17T19:58:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T19:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/349546\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T19:58:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T19:58:57","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-nypd-special-victims-unit-investigates-attack-inside-prospect-park-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/349546\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Nypd Special Victims Unit Investigates Attack Inside Prospect Park Sources Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police sources say the NYPD&#8217;s Special Victims Unit is investigating after a woman was attacked inside Prospect Park.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">It happened just before 10 p.m. on Wednesday near 101 East Drive.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to police, a man walked up to the victim and tried to start a conversation with her before he grabbed her from behind and assaulted her.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD says the man ran away after the attack. He is around 6 feet, 2 inches tall and was last seen wearing a hat and a T-Shirt.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to investigators, the woman suffered minor injuries and turned down medical attention.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">It was not immediately known if any weapons were involved. Police have not publicly classified the assault as sexual in nature.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">This is a developing story. Stay with News 12 for the latest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police sources say the NYPD&#8217;s Special Victims Unit is investigating after a woman was attacked inside Prospect Park.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-349546","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\/349546","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=349546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}