{"id":6811,"date":"2023-11-29T17:59:27","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T22:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localtalkweekly.com\/?p=6811"},"modified":"2023-12-01T16:00:16","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T21:00:16","slug":"four-youths-jump-11-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/localtalkweekly.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/29\/four-youths-jump-11-year-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Youths Jump 11 Year Old"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

BY WALTER ELLIOTT<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NEWARK<\/strong> – There is more than just the holiday season in one Newark neighborhood for noticing increased police patrols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 The Newark Police Division Traffic Unit has stepped up patrolling the area in and around the North Ward’s Lower Broadway section in the wake of an 11-year-old boy being jumped by four youths here Nov. 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The middle school student was walking home that Wednesday afternoon in the 540 block of Summer Avenue when a pair of gray four-door late model SUVs stopped in the travel lane across from him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a surveillance video recording released by a neighbor, the first two or three and then four males in their late teens or early twenties got out of the first SUV and approached the boy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They grabbed his cell phone, throwing him down onto the sidewalk, before getting back into the first car. The boy ran to get into the SUV to get the phone back – but the vehicle pulled away, sending the boy onto the street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The boy, who suffered an injured knee, was taken in by another neighbor and called police. NPD recorded the following descriptions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n