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# Help Identify Assailants in Last Sunday’s Pipe Attack On East 19th Street
- URL: https://bklyner.com/help-identify-assailants-last-sundays-pipe-attack-east-19th-street/
- Published: 2017-09-01T20:17:08.000Z
- Updated: 2017-09-01T20:18:59.000Z
- Author: Liena Zagare
- Tags: midwood, Police & Fire, Southern Brooklyn, 61st Precinct, #wp

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KINGS HIGHWAY — The New York City Police Department is looking for help to identify two men, who hit another man in the head with a metal pipe last Sunday evening.

It was reported to the police that the incident took place on Sunday, August 27, 2017 around 11:30pm in front of [1728 East 19th Street, ](https://www.google.com/maps/place/1728+E+19th+St,+Brooklyn,+NY+11229/@40.6075962,-73.9570747,17z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c244940edccb97:0x7746b754f807e202!8m2!3d40.6079953!4d-73.9545534?ref=bklyner.com)just south of Quentin Road.

Two individuals approached a 53-year-old man who was walking south on East 19th Street when he was struck in the head with a metal pipe. The victim was transported to the [New York Community Hospital](http://nych.com/?ref=bklyner.com) where he received stitches to the back of his head.

Police describe the first individual as a man, last seen wearing a black shirt, black hooded sweatshirt with a zipper in the front and a hat,

The second individual was last seen wearing a red shirt with white writing on the front, gray shorts, black sneakers with white soles and a black book bag.

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*Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at [WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM](http://www.nypdcrimestoppers.com/?ref=bklyner.com) or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577.*

*All calls are strictly confidential.*