{"id":420705,"date":"2025-12-03T01:14:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T01:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/420705\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T01:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T01:14:13","slug":"man-82-killed-after-bumping-into-elderly-maniac-on-nyc-street-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/420705\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 82, killed after bumping into elderly maniac on NYC street: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An 82-year-old man died weeks after he accidentally bumped into an elderly neighbor who violently shoved him to the ground during a Manhattan stroll, cops and sources said Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dana Escoffier, 79, allegedly threw Dean Conover Whetzel onto a West Village sidewalk, leading him to hit his head during an argument after the pair mistakenly walked into one another around 1:30 p.m. on Oct. 11, according to cops and sources.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI pushed him because he bumped into me,\u201d Escoffier allegedly blurted out in front of a witness on Hudson Street near West 11th Street before he fled the scene, prosecutors said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37826792\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/postinhouse-nypostinhouse-crime-scene-crime-115470709.jpg\" alt=\"crime scene photo\" class=\"wp-image-37826792\"  \/>Dean Conover Whetzel, 82, was killed after a neighbor shoved him in the West Village.  Christopher Sadowski<\/p>\n<p>The eagle-eyed witness then followed the enraged septuagenarian and pointed him out to police, a criminal complaint alleges.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The victim \u2014 who was found unconscious by cops with a swollen right eye and laceration to the back of the head \u2014 was rushed to NYC Health\/Hospitals\/Bellevue in critical condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He succumbed to his injuries three weeks later. The medical examiner\u2019s office ruled it a homicide on Nov. 6, the NYPD said Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The two senior citizens were strangers and lived around the corner from one another, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37826791\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/police-scene-person-shot-reverend-111787493.jpg\" alt=\"crime scene photo\" class=\"wp-image-37826791\"  \/>Dean Conover Whetzel, 82, died three weeks after he was allegedly shoved by Dana Escoffier.  Christopher Sadowski<\/p>\n<p>Escoffier was charged with assault and aggravated harassment in October before being released.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear if he will face additional charges.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He is due back in court on\u00a0Dec. 4th.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Post was unable to reach Escoffier Tuesday night. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 82-year-old man died weeks after he accidentally bumped into an elderly neighbor who violently shoved him to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":420706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,12937,4219,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969,19146],"class_list":{"0":"post-420705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-assaults","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-us-news","24":"tag-usa","25":"tag-west-village"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115652989653784425","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420705","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=420705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}