{"id":175698,"date":"2026-04-25T10:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T10:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/175698\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T10:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T10:15:10","slug":"erie-police-seek-suspects-after-pair-assaulted-robbed-at-city-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/175698\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie police seek suspects after pair assaulted, robbed at city park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Erie police are searching for three suspects in a reported armed robbery and assault on the early morning of April 13 at a park on the city&#8217;s west side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The incident was reported at about 1 a.m. April 13 at Columbus Park, at West 16th and Poplar streets. According to police, a man and a woman, ages 21 and 18, were hanging out at the park and the man was skateboarding when they said three people approached them. The three reportedly had a gun, and the man who was skateboarding told them it was not a real gun, police reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The three suspects then beat the man up and shot him twice with what turned out to be a BB gun, according to Erie police. The suspects then stole the woman&#8217;s purse and a cell phone.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No one was seriously hurt or hospitalized following the attack, Deputy Chief Ken Kensill said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Contact Tim Hahn at\u00a0<a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/mailto:thahn@timesnews.com\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:thahn@usatodayco.com;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">thahn@usatodayco.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on Erie Times-News: <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goerie.com\/story\/news\/crime\/2026\/04\/13\/assault-robbery-reported-by-pair-west-erie-park\/89589358007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Pair report being assaulted, robbed by suspects at west Erie park;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Pair report being assaulted, robbed by suspects at west Erie park<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erie police are searching for three suspects in a reported armed robbery and assault on the early morning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[8447,136,138,137,5585,78687],"class_list":["post-175698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-armed-robbery","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-erie-police","tag-poplar-streets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}