BROOKLYN, NY \u2014 Police are searching for a suspect after a 71-year-old man was attacked with a shovel during a daytime assault in the Gravesend section of Brooklyn.<\/p>\n
The unprovoked attack unfolded around 11:30 a.m. on Dec. 27 near Stryker Court and West 1st Street, where police say the suspect came up to the 71-year-old and struck him in the face with a shovel before running off. <\/p>\n
The victim was taken by EMS to NYC Health + Hospitals\/Coney Island in stable condition, police said. <\/p>\n
The suspect, who still remains at large as of Monday morning, is believed to be between 20 and 25 years old, about 5 feet 11 inches tall, with a medium build and a brown beard, police said. <\/p>\n
He was last seen wearing a black jacket layered over a light-colored zip-up jacket, brown pants, black shoes and dark-colored glasses. <\/p>\n
Anyone with information is asked to contact the NYPD\u2019s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or, in Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROOKLYN, NY \u2014 Police are searching for a suspect after a 71-year-old man was attacked with a shovel…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":494489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-494488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115843541467435565","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494488","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=494488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}