{"id":92859,"date":"2026-01-07T21:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T21:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/92859\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T21:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T21:37:07","slug":"nyc-brute-arrested-for-randomly-bashing-man-71-with-shovel-days-after-stealing-ribeye-steak-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/92859\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC brute arrested for randomly bashing man, 71, with shovel &#8212; days after stealing ribeye steak: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Brooklyn brute was nabbed this week for allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/04\/us-news\/wacko-smashes-elderly-man-in-face-with-shovel-in-random-attack-during-nyc-snowstorm\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bashing a 71-year-old man in the head<\/a> with a shovel \u2013 just days after cops say he stole ribeye steak from his local supermarket.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sean P. Abt, 24, was arrested Tuesday evening and charged with assault in connection to the random Dec. 27 attack on the septuagenarian at Stryker Court and West 1 Street in Gravesend, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The bizarre shovel attack came as <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/27\/us-news\/big-apple-gets-4-inches-of-snowfall-snarling-plane-travel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a post-Christmas storm<\/a> blanketed the Big Apple in about four inches of snow.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38120893\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/new-york-city-police-department-118257145_073f69.jpg\" alt=\"Sean P. Abt, 24, was charged with assault in connection to the random shovel attack on a septuagenarian at Stryker Court and West 1 Street in Gravesend, police said. \" class=\"wp-image-38120893\"  \/>Sean P. Abt, 24, was charged with assault in connection to the random shovel attack on a septuagenarian at Stryker Court and West 1 Street in Gravesend, police said.  NYPD<\/p>\n<p>The victim was taken to Coney Island Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Abt, of Sheepshead Bay, was also charged Tuesday for allegedly shoplifting from his neighborhood Stop &amp; Shop, police said.<\/p>\n<p>He allegedly stole ribeye steak and other beef from the store on Avenue Y near East 17th Street on Dec. 23, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38120897\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/sean-p-abt-24-arrested-118449647.jpg\" alt=\"Abt was also busted for allegedly shoplifting at a Brooklyn Stop &amp; Shop, 1710 Avenue Y, on Dec. 23 \u2013 stealing rib eye and other beef, cops said. \" class=\"wp-image-38120897\"  \/>Just four days before the shovel attack, Abt allegedly stole ribeye steak from Stop &amp; Shop, cops said. Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>Abt has no other arrests on his record, aside from the holiday season mayhem, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His arraignments in connection to those cases were pending Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Brooklyn brute was nabbed this week for allegedly bashing a 71-year-old man in the head with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[101,211,98,303,57,9,56,63,65,64,9935,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-92859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-arrest","9":"tag-assault","10":"tag-brooklyn","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-nyc-headlines","17":"tag-nyc-news","18":"tag-shoplifting","19":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92859","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=92859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}