{"id":287093,"date":"2025-10-08T17:45:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T17:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/287093\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T17:45:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T17:45:27","slug":"teen-hit-in-head-after-sidewalk-dispute-in-manhattan-police-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/287093\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen hit in head after sidewalk dispute in Manhattan, police sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/MixCollage-08-Oct-2025-10-38-AM-8153.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"Police are asking for the public's help to identify this man who they say is responsible for the Oct. 5 attack.\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Teen hit in head after sidewalk dispute in Manhattan, police sources say 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Police are asking for the public\u2019s help to identify this man who they say is responsible for the Oct. 5 attack. <\/p>\n<p>Photo by NYPD\/Crimestoppers<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>An 18-year-old woman was struck in the head by a man Sunday afternoon in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/new-york\/manhattan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manhattan<\/a>\u2019s Rose Hill neighborhood after a brief exchange on the sidewalk, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/new-york\/manhattan\/teen-hit-sidewalk-dispute-manhattan\/about:blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">police<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"184\" data-end=\"405\">The teen was walking past the man in front of 50 Lexington Ave. around 12:11 p.m. on Oct. 5 when he reportedly said, \u201cCan\u2019t you say excuse me?\u201d before striking her in the head with an unknown object, according to police sources.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the teen suffered pain and swelling and was taken by EMS to NYC Health + Hospitals\/Bellevue, where she was listed in stable condition.\n<\/p>\n<p>The attacker was last seen feeling the location on foot. He is described as a man with a dark complexion, last seen wearing a black sweatshirt and black pants.\n<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the NYPD released photos of the alleged suspect and is asking for the public\u2019s assistance in identifying him.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/assets\/nypd\/downloads\/pdf\/crime_statistics\/cs-en-us-013pct.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The latest police data<\/a> shows that assault reports in the 13th precinct, which also encompasses the southern portion of Midtown, are up some 24% year-to-date. As of Oct. 5, there have been 227 reported incidents, up from 183 during the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding the assault can call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (for Spanish, dial 888-57-PISTA). You can also submit tips online at <a href=\"http:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crimestoppers.nypdonline.org<\/a>, or on X (formerly Twitter)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nypdtips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@NYPDTips.<\/a>\u00a0All calls and messages are kept confidential.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are asking for the public\u2019s help to identify this man who they say is responsible for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":287094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[147702,5229,10762,16491,5249,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5257,130536,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-287093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-113th-precinct","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-assault","11":"tag-crimestoppers","12":"tag-manhattan","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-nypd","20":"tag-rose-hill","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115339796792587887","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}