{"id":370922,"date":"2026-10-12T12:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T12:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/370922\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T12:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T12:02:09","slug":"man-beaten-to-death-outside-manhattan-sex-shop-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/370922\/","title":{"rendered":"Man beaten to death outside Manhattan sex shop: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was beaten to death outside of a New York City sex shop Sunday night, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The 60-year-old man, who has yet to be identified, was knocked to the ground and repeatedly struck in the head outside the Rainbow Station in Chelsea, cops said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/man-fatally-beaten-argument-chelsea-adult-store-police-say\/19931553\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ABC 7<\/a> said the argument started inside the adult store, although cops said it appeared to have been a robbery as the victim\u2019s wallat was nabbed while he was outside.<\/p>\n<p>NYPD officers work the scene outside Rainbow Station sex shop on 8th Avenue where a man was fatally beaten.  Kyle Mazza\/SOPA Images\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>NYPD officers work the scene outside Rainbow Station sex shop on 8th Avenue, where a man was beaten to death. Kyle Mazza\/SOPA Images\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>New York City Police Department officers work the scene outside Rainbow Station sex shop on 8th Avenue on Sunday, October 11, 2026. Kyle Mazza\/SOPA Images\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>Imani McColley, 25, of Queens, was arrested and charged with murder and two counts of robbery.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was rushed by EMS to Bellevue Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to police, who said the deadly beatdown remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was beaten to death outside of a New York City sex shop Sunday night, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[303,1840,75,84,83,57,360,9,24,63,103,58],"class_list":["post-370922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-crime","tag-death","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-metro","tag-midtown","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370922","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=370922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}