{"id":901,"date":"2025-10-14T07:14:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T07:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/901\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T07:14:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T07:14:16","slug":"man-sought-after-assaulting-65-year-old-during-dispute-in-brooklyn-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/901\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sought after assaulting 65-year-old during dispute in Brooklyn, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MixCollage-13-Oct-2025-10-42-AM-6838.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"Police released this photo of the alleged suspect in the Brooklyn assault\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Man sought after assaulting 65-year-old during dispute in Brooklyn, police say 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Police released this photo of the alleged suspect in the Brooklyn assault <\/p>\n<p>Photo by NYPD\/Crimestoppers<\/p>\n<p>Police in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/new-york\/brooklyn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brooklyn<\/a> are on the hunt for a brazen brute who allegedly assaulted a 65-year-old man earlier this month.\n<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the incident occurred around 12:02 p.m. on Oct. 7, 2025, near Prospect Place and Thomas S. Boyland Street in Crown Heights, within the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/?s=73rd+Precinct+\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">73rd Precinct.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to law enforcement, the victim was exiting a residential building when he was approached by an unidentified man who began a verbal dispute. Police did not provide details on what led to the argument.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect displayed an unknown object and struck the victim in the hand, causing pain and swelling, before fleeing west on Prospect Place, police said.\n<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement sources said the victim suffered minor injuries but refused medical attention at the scene.\n<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Oct. 12, police released a photo of the alleged suspect and are seeking the public\u2019s help in identifying them. He was last seen wearing a blue vest, beige T-shirt, blue shorts, and black-and-white sandals.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding the assault can call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (for Spanish, dial 888-57-PISTA). You can also submit tips online at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">crimestoppers.nypdonline.org<\/a>, or on X (formerly Twitter)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nypdtips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@NYPDTips<\/a>. All calls and messages are kept confidential.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1070\" data-end=\"1255\">As of Oct. 5, reported assaults in the 73rd Precinct were up more than 25% year to date, with 654 incidents compared with 521 during the same period last year, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/assets\/nypd\/downloads\/pdf\/crime_statistics\/cs-en-us-073pct.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">NYPD data.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police released this photo of the alleged suspect in the Brooklyn assault Photo by NYPD\/Crimestoppers Police in Brooklyn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1101,98,100,99,102,9,24,63,103],"class_list":["post-901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-73rd-precicnt","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-crown-heights","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901","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=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}