{"id":74842,"date":"2025-12-18T21:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T21:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/74842\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T21:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T21:28:09","slug":"9-year-old-brooklyn-boy-stabbed-inside-playground-cops-say-amnewyork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/74842\/","title":{"rendered":"9-year-old Brooklyn boy stabbed inside playground, cops say \u2013 amNewYork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/brooklyn-stabbing-lloyd-mitchell-12182025-3.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"Police in Brooklyn canvass area where boy was stabbed\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"BREAKING: 9-year-old Brooklyn boy stabbed inside playground, cops say 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A 9-year-old boy was stabbed and seriously injured inside a Brooklyn park on Dec. 18, 2025, police reported.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Lloyd Mitchell <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>A 9-year-old boy was stabbed and seriously injured inside a <a href=\"http:\/\/amny.com\/brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Brooklyn<\/a> park on Thursday afternoon, police reported.\n<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement sources said the horrific crime happened at about 2:55 p.m. on Dec. 18 inside Imagination Playground at Betsy Head Park, near the corner of Thomas Boyland Street and Dumont Avenue in Brownsville. The park is in the confines of the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nypd73pct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">73rd Precinct<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Police sources said the child suffered a stab wound to his chest. EMS rushed him to a local hospital; his condition is unknown.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-137818862\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/brooklyn-stabbing-lloyd-mitchell-12182025-1.jpg\" alt=\"Police in Brooklyn canvass area where boy was stabbed\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" title=\"BREAKING: 9-year-old Brooklyn boy stabbed inside playground, cops say 2\"  \/>Law enforcement sources said the horrific crime happened at about 2:55 p.m. on Dec. 18 inside a playground at Betsy Head Park, near the corner of Thomas Boyland Street and Dumont Avenue in Brownsville.\n<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD has launched a land-and-air search for the child\u2019s suspected attacker. Reports on the Citizen app indicated that the assailant is believed to be a juvenile.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains ongoing.\n<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story; check with amNewYork later for additional updates.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 9-year-old boy was stabbed and seriously injured inside a Brooklyn park on Dec. 18, 2025, police reported.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[25338,37679,98,19820,100,99,4673,37680,11745,9395,27839,37681,9,24,790,63,791,37682,37683,613,793,37684],"class_list":{"0":"post-74842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-73rd-precinct","9":"tag-betsy-head-park","10":"tag-brooklyn","11":"tag-brooklyn-crime","12":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","13":"tag-brooklyn-news","14":"tag-brownsville-brooklyn","15":"tag-child-injured","16":"tag-community-safety","17":"tag-developing-story","18":"tag-ems-response","19":"tag-juvenile-suspect","20":"tag-new-york","21":"tag-new-york-city","22":"tag-new-york-city-crime","23":"tag-nyc","24":"tag-nypd-investigation","25":"tag-park-violence","26":"tag-playground-stabbing","27":"tag-pm-newsletter","28":"tag-police-search","29":"tag-violent-incident"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74842","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=74842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}