{"id":267289,"date":"2026-08-18T03:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T03:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/267289\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T03:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T03:32:11","slug":"individual-in-chucky-style-mask-accused-of-harassing-people-near-philadelphia-city-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/267289\/","title":{"rendered":"Individual in ‘Chucky’-style mask accused of harassing people near Philadelphia City Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"

Individual in ‘Chucky’-style mask accused of harassing people near Philadelphia City Hall<\/p>\n

\"Tasmin<\/a>\"Michael<\/a>PHILADELPHIA \u2014<\/p>\n

Police are searching for a masked individual who allegedly chased, threatened, and harassed people near Philadelphia City Hall last Wednesday morning. <\/p>\n

\"Image\"ImageMasked suspect allegedly films encounters<\/p>\n

The suspect, wearing a “Chucky”-style Halloween mask, was first spotted near 15th and Chestnut streets around 5:18 a.m., police said.<\/p>\n

Investigators said he ran up to people to scare them while holding up a cellphone, indicating he was filming. <\/p>\n

Women chased and threatened<\/p>\n

Police said the man also entered a nearby Dunkin’, where employees refused to serve him because of the mask.<\/p>\n

He allegedly chased, cornered, and threatened a woman who was jogging, and blocked another woman’s path while repeatedly asking, “Are you ready to die?”<\/p>\n

The second woman ran away screaming for help and injured her leg. <\/p>\n

\"Image\"ImagePolice search for suspect<\/p>\n

The suspect was last seen entering Suburban Station at 5:35 a.m., police said. <\/p>\n

“He’s wearing all black with a mask, a scary mask, so you can’t see any of his identifying features. He just comes up and terrorizes people,” said Kate Egan, who works in the area. <\/p>\n

Police described the suspect as a thin Black male, between 16 and 20 years old, and about 5 feet 8 inches.<\/p>\n

He faces charges including terroristic threats, harassment, and simple assault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Individual in ‘Chucky’-style mask accused of harassing people near Philadelphia City Hall PHILADELPHIA \u2014 Police are searching for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[112732,112734,112733,13672,28,69,5550,71,70,26430,7654],"class_list":["post-267289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-chucky-styled-mask","tag-harassement","tag-kate-egan","tag-masked-man","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-city-hall","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-simple-assault","tag-terroristic-threats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267289","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=267289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}