{"id":250960,"date":"2026-07-24T08:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T08:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/250960\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T08:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T08:53:10","slug":"erie-police-seek-suspects-after-18-year-old-attacked-at-city-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/250960\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie police seek suspects after 18-year-old attacked at city park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:GoErie.com;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goerie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"GoErie.com\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/aol_goerie_com_255.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tim Hahn, Erie Times-News<\/p>\n<p>Thu, July 23, 2026 at 5:32 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"2716\" height=\"1716\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/d9b02253-db1d-44f3-a5a4-818204fcdd0d.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Erie police are investigating an assault on an 18-year-old man following a summer basketball event at a city park July 20.<\/p>\n<p>In the assault, which was captured on video and has circulated on social media, the victim was attacked by a number of others following Spoons Summer Basketball League games at Witherspoon Park in Erie, city Police Chief Rick Lorah said July 23.<\/p>\n<p>Lorah said officers had been at the park for the games, but left after they were over. The attack occurred sometime after that, he said.<\/p>\n<p>More: <a data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goerie.com\/story\/news\/crime\/2026\/05\/22\/erie-city-parks-increased-police-presence-pledged\/90193021007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">In wake of issues at parks, Erie police pledge to increase patrols<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police identified the victim and made contact with his family, and detectives are working to identify those involved in assaulting the man, Lorah said.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Tim Hahn at\u00a0<a data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/articles\/mailto:thahn@timesnews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">thahn@usatodayco.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Erie Times-News: <a data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goerie.com\/story\/news\/crime\/2026\/07\/23\/attack-on-man-18-witherspoon-park-erie-police-investigating\/91024055007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Erie police investigating attack on 18-year-old after basketball games<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim Hahn, Erie Times-News Thu, July 23, 2026 at 5:32 PM UTC Erie police are investigating an assault&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-250960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250960","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=250960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}