Man Knocked out in Newark Bar, Now Police Are Searching for His Attacker

May 13, 2022
Man Knocked out in Newark Bar, Now Police Are Searching for His Attacker

NEWARK, NJ – Police in Newark are trying to identify an assailant who punched a victim inside a bar multiple times, knocking him out.

Newark Public Safety Director Brian A. O’Hara requests the public’s help with identifying the below-pictured suspect, who assaulted a male victim at a bar on May 7, 2022.

“At approximately midnight, the suspect was captured on surveillance video punching the victim in the face multiple times at a bar on New York Avenue. The victim lost consciousness, fell to the floor, and was later treated at University Hospital,” O’Hara said. “The suspect left the location as a passenger in a vehicle, believed to be a Chevy, which fled on Houston Street toward Wilson Avenue”