{"id":32340,"date":"2024-03-18T17:46:32","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T12:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/tow-truck-driver-delivers-fatal-punch-in-nyc-parking-spot-dispute-police-say\/"},"modified":"2024-03-18T17:46:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T12:16:32","slug":"tow-truck-driver-delivers-fatal-punch-in-nyc-parking-spot-dispute-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/tow-truck-driver-delivers-fatal-punch-in-nyc-parking-spot-dispute-police-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Tow truck driver delivers fatal punch in NYC parking spot dispute, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit_1500w\/rockcms\/2024-03\/240318-brooklyn-tow-truck-punch-mb-1152-01a346.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\">A parking dispute between two men in Brooklyn, N.Y. turned deadly Saturday when police said one of the men took a swing at the other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The fatal strike happened on Clarkson Avenue in East Flatbush after a 30-year-old tow truck driver arrived around 8:45 p.m. to remove a car parked illegally, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police said the owner of the car, a 61-year-old man, tried to stop the tow. At one point the driver allegedly started banging on the side of the truck to stop the tow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The altercation became physical, with the tow truck driver delivering a punch that knocked the older man to the ground, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Medics transported the 61-year-old man to Brookdale Hospital but his injuries proved fatal. His identity has not been released by authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"endmark\">Police said the tow truck driver was taken into custody. No criminal charges were immediately announced.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] A parking dispute between two men in Brooklyn, N.Y. turned deadly Saturday when police said one of the men took a swing at the other. The fatal strike happened on Clarkson Avenue in East Flatbush after a 30-year-old tow truck driver arrived around 8:45 p.m. to remove a car parked illegally, according to police. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}