{"id":381416,"date":"2026-10-24T03:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T03:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/381416\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T03:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T03:50:09","slug":"autistic-man-33-dies-after-fight-outside-nyc-disability-center-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/381416\/","title":{"rendered":"Autistic man, 33, dies after fight outside NYC disability center: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An autistic man died after he got into a fight with an employee outside a disability center in Harlem on Friday, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The man, 33, allegedly attacked a 54-year-old female staffer at Quality Services for the Autism Community (QSAC) on East 129th Street shortly before 5:45 p.m., according to the sources.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"41495422\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/32-year-old-man-autism-146269148.jpg\" alt=\"Police investigate the area on East 129th Street where a 32-year-old man with autism was involved in a fight before dying in police custody.\" class=\"wp-image-41495422\"\/>A 33-year-old autistic man died after he got into a fight with an employee at a disability center in Harlem Friday evening.  Kevin C. Downs for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>He was found unconscious when cops arrived, according to police, who said he\u2019d been restrained by staffers at the center.<\/p>\n<p>EMS rushed the man to Harlem Hospital where he later died, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The staff worker was also taken to the hospital in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear what sparked the spat.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:2.06036217;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"41495430\" width=\"1024\" height=\"497\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/google-maps-146264715.jpg\" alt=\"Google Maps street view of 3 East 129th Street.\" class=\"wp-image-41495430\"\/> Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>QSAC, with locations across the Big Apple, is a non-profit that provides support services for children and adults with autism.<\/p>\n<p>The man\u2019s identity is being withheld until the family is notified.<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s medical examiner will determine his cause of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An autistic man died after he got into a fight with an employee outside a disability center in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[14836,469,57,9,56,63,65,64,103,58],"class_list":["post-381416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-autism","tag-harlem","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-nypd","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381416","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=381416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}