{"id":272406,"date":"2026-08-26T06:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T06:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/272406\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T06:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T06:46:11","slug":"chucky-masked-sicko-zymire-hughes-who-terrorized-philadelphia-citizens-is-captured-in-vegas-after-2-week-manhunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/272406\/","title":{"rendered":"Chucky-masked sicko Zymire Hughes who terrorized Philadelphia citizens is captured in Vegas after 2-week manhunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chucky mask-wearing sicko <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/08\/18\/us-news\/philadelphia-man-wearing-chucky-mask-allegedly-targeted-six-people\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who is accused of terrorizing Philadelphia citizens,<\/a> including a female jogger, was captured in Las Vegas following a two-week-long manhunt.<\/p>\n<p>Zymire Hughes, 22, was busted in Nevada Tuesday night on an out-of-state warrant for the alleged aggravated assault of a 40-year-old woman on Aug. 12, US Marshals announced. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTonight the fear that one man brought to the Philadelphia community comes to an end,\u201d US Marshals Service Robert Clark told reporters, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DcfHUQjgOP6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">according to NBC Philadelphia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The menacing fugitive was found hiding out inside an apartment complex in Southeast Las Vegas just after 8 p.m. ET Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy hiding behind a Chucky-style Halloween mask, Hughes terrorized Philadelphia residents and believed he could evade law enforcement. He was wrong,\u201d Clark said.<\/p>\n<p>Zymire Hughes was captured by US Marshals, who blurred his face on social media, at an apartment in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Aug. 25, 2026. X\/ @USMS_Philly<\/p>\n<p>Hughes is being held at the Clark County Detention Center before being extradited to Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>The masked maniac was wanted by the Philadelphia Police Department after lurking around the City Hall neighborhood disguised as the infamous movie villain, terrorizing six random people in a horrifying 15-minute episode on Aug. 12. <\/p>\n<p>Hughes was wanted after terrorizing at least six people in Philadelphia during a 15-minute attack on Aug. 12, 2026. Philadelphia Police Department<\/p>\n<p>A suspect wearing a \u201cChucky doll\u201d face mask chases after a female jogger in Philadelphia on Aug. 12, 2026. Philadelphia Police Department<\/p>\n<p>During the chilling spree, Hughes \u2013 wearing the mask \u2013 allegedly chased a 40-year-old female jogger while making threatening remarks, causing her to fall and suffer an injury at around 5:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you ready to die?\u201d Hughes allegedly asked the unidentified woman while filming his sick intimidation.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes had been visiting relatives in Philadelphia, but fled the city on Aug. 19, taking a complicated route home, jumping on a plane from Trenton, NJ, to Orlando, Fla.<\/p>\n<p>He boarded another flight back to Las Vegas, where he had recently moved into a residence with his girlfriend, NBC Philadelphia reported.<\/p>\n<p>Officials had feared Hughes had fled Philadelphia <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/08\/23\/us-news\/chucky-mask-sicko-zymire-hughes-could-be-lurking-in-california-after-stalking-philly-jogger\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">for either California <\/a>or Nevada, where he had ties in both cities.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chucky mask-wearing sicko who is accused of terrorizing Philadelphia citizens, including a female jogger, was captured in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2694,4993,70951,28,69,71,70,34178,302],"class_list":["post-272406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-arrests","tag-las-vegas","tag-nevada","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-us-marshals-service","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272406","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=272406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}