{"id":3980,"date":"2025-10-15T20:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T20:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/3980\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T20:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T20:49:08","slug":"nutjob-slaps-2-young-kids-in-unhinged-tantrum-near-nycs-high-line-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/3980\/","title":{"rendered":"Nutjob slaps 2 young kids in unhinged tantrum near NYC&#8217;s High Line: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A deranged stranger slapped a toddler and an unrelated 7-year-old kid in a twisted midday tantrum steps from the High Line on Wednesday, cops and sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The attacker \u2013 described as an \u201cemotionally disturbed person\u201d \u2013 struck the 2-year-old girl and school-aged boy in the face around 12:30 p.m. at West 21st Street and 10th Avenue in Hudson Yards, according to authorities and sources.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Both children were conscious and alert and their parents refused medical attention on their behalf, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37391618\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/west-21st-street-10th-avenue-113524474.jpg\" alt=\"West 21st Street and 10th Avenue. Two kids, 2 and 7, slapped by deranged attacker in broad daylight violence in Hudson Yards.\" class=\"wp-image-37391618\"  \/>The \u201cemotionally disturbed\u201d attacker slapped a 2-year-old girl and 7-year-old boy at West 21st Street and 10th Avenue around 12:30 p.m., cops said. Google Maps<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37391623\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/west-21st-street-10th-avenue-113524475.jpg\" alt=\"West 21st Street and 10th Avenue. Two kids, 2 and 7, slapped by deranged attacker in broad daylight violence in Hudson Yards.\" class=\"wp-image-37391623\"  \/>The attacker, last seen wearing a blue \u201cChampion\u201d hoodie, fled the scene, sources said. Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>The young victims were not related \u2013 one is a New Yorker and the other from a tourist family, the sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The attacker, described as having a dark complexion, last seen wearing a black hoodie with the word \u201cChampion\u201d on it, black pants, and black sneakers, was last seen leaving the High Line, the sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was still on the loose Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A deranged stranger slapped a toddler and an unrelated 7-year-old kid in a twisted midday tantrum steps from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[357,4207,303,4208,57,9,56,63,65,64,4209,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-3980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-assaults","9":"tag-children","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-hudson-yards","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-nyc-headlines","17":"tag-nyc-news","18":"tag-the-high-line","19":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3980","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=3980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}