{"id":944741,"date":"2026-07-19T04:40:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T04:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/944741\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T04:40:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T04:40:36","slug":"bryant-park-man-accused-of-hurling-cell-phone-at-mother-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/944741\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryant Park man accused of hurling cell phone at mother, baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A crazed homeless man went on a rampage in Manhattan\u2019s Bryant Park Saturday in which he hurled a cell phone at a mother and her infant in a stroller \u2014 striking the child in the arm, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Around 10:00 a.m. Saturday, 49-year-old Marc Okon allegedly targeted the stroller near Sixth Avenue and West 41st Street, striking the baby girl in the left arm with a cell phone and causing visible redness.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.41828255;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"40026743\" width=\"837\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/192315878__08152020_z_R4A6047.jpg\" alt=\"NYPD Critical Response Command (CRC) team vehicles parked outside Bryant Park in Manhattan.\" class=\"wp-image-40026743\"  \/>NYPD CRC (Critical Response Command ) team outside Bryant Park this morning in Manhattan, New York, U.S., August 15, 2020 Rashid Umar Abbasi<\/p>\n<p>Okon, who is homeless, then reportedly retrieved the device and threw it again at the 39-year-old mother, though the phone missed its mark.<\/p>\n<p>Police took Okon into custody at the scene, charging him with assault, endangering the welfare of a child, and reckless endangerment.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the victims did not know Okon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A crazed homeless man went on a rampage in Manhattan\u2019s Bryant Park Saturday in which he hurled a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":944742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,12937,630,89274,7265,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":["post-944741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-assaults","tag-baby","tag-bryant-park","tag-homelessness","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-news","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116944807195760914","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944741","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=944741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}