{"id":25669,"date":"2025-11-05T15:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T15:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/25669\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T15:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T15:35:07","slug":"pennsylvania-teen-accused-of-assaulting-yelling-racial-slurs-at-3-children-after-basketball-game-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/25669\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania teen accused of assaulting, yelling racial slurs at 3 children after basketball game \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">MOUNT JOY, Pa. \u2014 A teen in Pennsylvania is accused of assaulting and yelling racial slurs at three children following a basketball game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The victims, ages 9, 10, and 11, reported the assault after playing basketball with a 15-year-old at their apartment complex, <a href=\"https:\/\/lancaster.crimewatchpa.com\/mountjoypd\/11456\/arrests\/juvenile-juvenile-18-2702-a1-aggravated-assault-4-counts-and-5-additional-charges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/lancaster.crimewatchpa.com\/mountjoypd\/11456\/arrests\/juvenile-juvenile-18-2702-a1-aggravated-assault-4-counts-and-5-additional-charges\">according to Mount Joy Borough Police.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">After the game ended, police said the teen began taunting the victims and yelled racial slurs. He then put each of the children in a headlock until they could not breathe as each one of them tried to intervene in the assault, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The victims also reported being hit, grabbed, pushed and forcefully moved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The teen is facing four counts each of aggravated assault, strangulation, simple assault and disorderly conduct. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92025 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MOUNT JOY, Pa. \u2014 A teen in Pennsylvania is accused of assaulting and yelling racial slurs at three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8565,6748,16829,4030,16830,2663,79,7017,7355,31,4329,13557,6753,7356,4033,4034,7359,16831,7360,4037,11299,742,4368,4369,8572,1405,4042,16832,708,7362,28,30,29,16833,206,13560,4047,812,16834,14637,3860,16835,16836,895,7364,7365,7366,6167,2155,13565,11835,4050,6967,16837],"class_list":["post-25669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-auto","tag-automobile","tag-blink","tag-blue","tag-blur","tag-car","tag-city","tag-color","tag-cop","tag-crime","tag-day","tag-duty","tag-emergency","tag-enforcement","tag-equipment","tag-focus","tag-force","tag-guard","tag-headlight","tag-illuminated","tag-lamp","tag-law","tag-lighting","tag-lights","tag-motor","tag-night","tag-officer","tag-organized","tag-outdoors","tag-patrol","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-personal","tag-police","tag-protection","tag-red","tag-rescue","tag-revolving","tag-roof","tag-security","tag-selective","tag-selective-focus","tag-service","tag-siren","tag-street","tag-surveillance","tag-transport","tag-transportation","tag-uniform","tag-unit","tag-urgency","tag-vehicle","tag-vibrant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25669","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=25669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}