{"id":272766,"date":"2026-08-26T19:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T19:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/272766\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T19:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T19:52:10","slug":"zymire-hughes-arrested-after-allegedly-terrorizing-philadelphia-in-chucky-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/272766\/","title":{"rendered":"Zymire Hughes Arrested After Allegedly Terrorizing Philadelphia in Chucky Mask"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man who allegedly donned a Chucky style mask and terrorized people on the streets of Philadelphia has been arrested.<\/p>\n

Zymire Hughes, 22, was taken into custody in Las Vegas at 8 p.m. local time on Aug. 25, the U.S. Marshals Service announced in a statement<\/a>. Authorities had previously revealed<\/a> he had ties to California and Nevada.<\/p>\n

Hughes is being held at the Clark County Detention Center and is expected to be extradited to Pennsylvania, according to authorities.<\/p>\n

Suspect Wearing Chucky Mask Terrorizes Streets of Philadelphia<\/p>\n

The arrest comes nearly two weeks after Philadelphia Police identified Hughes as the suspect in a series of disturbing encounters near City Hall on the morning of Aug. 12. Police said a man wearing what they described as a \u201cChucky doll Halloween-style face mask\u201d ran up to and frightened several pedestrians.<\/p>\n

In fact, at one point, Hughes allegedly began chasing a man wearing a reflective vest, before honing in on the female jogger.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s holding his cell phone up in front of her, at which time he asks her \u2018Are you ready to die?\u2019\u201d Philadelphia Police Captain Jason Smith said<\/a>. \u201c[She] appears startled, at which time the male asks her again, \u2018Are you ready to die?\u2019 Clearly she\u2019s not ready to die, so she takes off.\u201d<\/p>\n

The incidents drew widespread attention after video and images circulated online showing the masked individual approaching people on Philadelphia streets.<\/p>\n

One woman appeared to be distracted by her phone and wearing earbuds when the masked suspect rapidly approached her, according to witness Jameka Wilson, a Philadelphia-based actor who previously spoke with Oxygen.com.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At the time, the suspect then turned his attention to someone holding a box, who was chased into a nearby coffee shop, per Wilson.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He then approached Wilson, who kicked him in the chest.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe seemed immediately confused,\u201d Wilson said. \u201cI don\u2019t think he was expecting that behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like he had the intent to harm,\u201d Wilson continued. \u201cBut he didn’t have the training or the full audacity, honestly.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the frightening encounter, Wilson had a blunt message to Hughes: \u201cThey\u2019re gonna find you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oxygen.com was unable to identify or reach legal representation for Hughes for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who allegedly donned a Chucky style mask and terrorized people on the streets of Philadelphia has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[95784,95788,114788,139,114786,69,71,70,41191,9547,114787],"class_list":["post-272766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-crime-news","tag-crime-reporting","tag-new-network-for-crime","tag-news","tag-oxygen","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-reporting","tag-true-crime","tag-very-real"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272766","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=272766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}