{"id":314575,"date":"2026-10-26T14:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T14:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/314575\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T14:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T14:50:08","slug":"crowd-beats-attacker-who-stabbed-2-men-outside-city-hall-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/314575\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowd beats attacker who stabbed 2 men outside City Hall \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was beaten by a gathered crowd after, officials said, he is believed to have stabbed two men in a fight that happened outside City Hall on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, officers responded to the intersection of 15th Street and John F. Kennedy Boulevard at about 9:07 p.m. on Sunday, at City Hall, after a report of a person with a weapon.<\/p>\n<p>As officers arrived, police found that a crowd became involved in an altercation &#8220;punching and kicking&#8221; a man who is believed to have stabbed two people during a fight. <\/p>\n<p>Witnesses told police that the incident began when the suspected attacker was involved in an argument with a 50-year-old man when he &#8220;produced an unknown sharp object&#8221; and struck the victim several times in the back of the head. <\/p>\n<p>Following this attack, officials said, a gathered crowd of about 10 to 12 people got involved, punching and kicking the suspected attacker until he fell to the ground. <\/p>\n<p>However, the suspect fled the area following the attack. <\/p>\n<p>During this fight, a 37-year-old man was also stabbed in his left arm. <\/p>\n<p>Both victims were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment, police said. <\/p>\n<p>An investigation into this incident remains ongoing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was beaten by a gathered crowd after, officials said, he is believed to have stabbed two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6081,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-314575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-center-city-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314575","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=314575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}