{"id":187435,"date":"2026-05-08T19:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T19:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/187435\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T19:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T19:23:10","slug":"violent-university-city-store-assault-leaves-woman-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/187435\/","title":{"rendered":"Violent University City Store Assault Leaves Woman Injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img width=\"735\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778268190_625_Assault-4000-Market-St-DC-26-18-018030.jpg\" class=\"attachment-hitmag-featured size-hitmag-featured wp-post-image\" alt=\"Assault, 4000 Market St\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\tSubmitted Image<\/p>\n<p>PHILADELPHIA, PA \u2014 Philadelphia police are asking for the public\u2019s help identifying a man accused of assaulting a woman inside a University City store last month.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Philadelphia Police Department, the incident occurred around 11 p.m. on April 22 inside a business along the 4000 block of Market Street.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said a man allegedly confronted a woman inside the store, leading to an argument that escalated into violence.<\/p>\n<p>Police alleged the suspect spit on the woman before punching her multiple times in the face and fleeing in an unknown direction.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the female victim suffered several injuries during the assault.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the incident or the suspect is asked to contact the Southwest Detective Division at 215-686-3183 or 215-686-3184 and reference case number DC 26-18-018030.<\/p>\n<p>All suspects, arrestees, and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.<\/p>\n<p>Support the local news that supports Chester County. MyChesCo delivers reliable, fact-based reporting and essential community resources\u2014free for everyone. If you value that, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/mychesco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">click here to become a patron today<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Submitted Image PHILADELPHIA, PA \u2014 Philadelphia police are asking for the public\u2019s help identifying a man accused of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11228,4828,69,71,70,595,3636],"class_list":["post-187435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-assault","tag-criminal-investigation","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-police-department","tag-violent-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187435","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=187435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}