{"id":358431,"date":"2026-09-28T00:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T00:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/358431\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T00:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T00:16:09","slug":"enraged-soccer-player-slashes-rival-in-head-in-nyc-park-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/358431\/","title":{"rendered":"Enraged soccer player slashes rival in head in NYC park: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"

An enraged nut job slashed a soccer rival in the face during a heated argument<\/a> in a Bronx park, police said Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The pair was playing\u00a0soccer in St. Mary\u2019s Park before a verbal tiff exploded, sending the assailant into a rage, near Trinity Avenue and East 147th Street around 7:35 p.m. July 13 in Mott Haven, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The maniac then slashed his victim<\/a> in the head before fleeing the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"ANYPD is searching for a suspect who slashed a rival soccer player in the face during an argument in the Bronx\u2019s St. Mary\u2019s Park.<\/p>\n

Medics took the injured man to NYC Health+Hispitals\/Lincoln, where he was listed in stable condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The NYPD said the wounded man did not know his attacker\u2019s name.<\/p>\n

Police released details of the violence along with surveillance footage of the suspect Sunday afternoon, describing him as an 18- to 22-year-old with a medium complexion, long black hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing an orange shirt, brown shorts and gold shoes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Surveillance footage captured him running out of the area after the gruesome\u00a0attack<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the NYPD\u2019s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), or, for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). <\/p>\n

The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website<\/p>\n

\u00a0All calls are strictly confidential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An enraged nut job slashed a soccer rival in the face during a heated argument in a Bronx…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,57,9,24,63,361,129,131,130,58,23681],"class_list":["post-358431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-slashings","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-us-news","tag-us-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358431","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=358431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}