{"id":1835365,"date":"2023-02-05T06:35:38","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T11:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1835365"},"modified":"2023-02-05T06:36:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T11:36:59","slug":"nypd-catches-suspect-in-beating-of-90-year-old-candy-shop-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nypd-catches-suspect-in-beating-of-90-year-old-candy-shop-owner\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD Catches Suspect in Beating of 90-Year-Old Candy Shop Owner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnypd-catches-suspect-in-beating-of-90-year-old-candy-shop-owner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1835365&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.rebelmouse.io\/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8zMjk4MDMxMS9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTcwNzQ1NjIyM30.q5Wt4rQ5R33RsEsyt9Qe8Oncz7g01T2ukMJIvR2PDPc\/img.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=600&#038;coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C54\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Then he told his friend, &#8216;Hold this I want to kill this guy,'&#8221; Alvarez told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/news\/local\/rays-candy-shop-owner-attacked-outside-east-village-store-police-say\/4082191\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBC&#8217;s News 4 New York<\/a> An attack that he sustained at 3:00 a.m. outside his Manhattan shop on Tuesday 31 January<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought this looks like the end,&#8221; Alvarez also spoke out against the beating.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This happens, you know, and I still love New York,&#8221; He added.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez, a bruised and bleeding Alvarez refused to be slowed down by the attack. According to reports, he went straight back to work the following day.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez, Ray&#8217;s Candy Shop owner in the East Village, was interviewed on camera shortly after the attack. Alvarez can be seen behind the counter of Ray&#8217;s Candy Shop in the East Village with a severely blackened left eye, and a cut near his left ear.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez recounted the terrifying encounter to News 4 and said that he was hit in the head with a belt with a rock at its end. He politely declined seltzer water but his attacker.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez received extensive injuries at Beth Israel Hospital on Thursday, two days after the attack. <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/02\/04\/nycs-rays-candy-store-attack-suspect-arrested\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a> reported. The Post reported that he is unable to eat from a straw as his jaw has been dislocated and that he has three broken bones around his eyes and face.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez initially resisted reporting the attack. He changed his mind after some encouragement from the neighbors, NBC New York reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Serving the public is the greatest thing in the world,&#8221; Alvarez smiled and smiled in a November 7, 2022 interview <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lYb0yUAZHjg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Video<\/a> Celebrating the 90th Birthday of Manhattan&#8217;s legend.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/fundrayscandystore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GoFundMe<\/a> The campaign featured the five-minute-long video that describes the shop in a simple way. &#8220;New York City institution&#8221; Open since 1974<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you&#8217;ve not been to Ray&#8217;s, you&#8217;ve not really been to New York,&#8221; The video has quips.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez needed to keep his doors open after suffering pandemic-related losses, rising food costs, and higher energy bills. The campaign was started to raise money.<\/p>\n<p>GoFundMe has raised $57,768 so far.<\/p>\n<p>Like Blaze News? Get stories like these straight to your inbox by signing up for our newsletters. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/newsletters\/theblaze-articlelink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Register now!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Then he told his friend, &#8216;Hold this I want to kill this guy,&#8217;&#8221; Alvarez told NBC&#8217;s News 4 New York An attack that he sustained at 3:00 a.m. outside his Manhattan shop on Tuesday 31 January &#8220;I thought this looks like the end,&#8221; Alvarez also spoke out against the beating. &#8220;This happens, you know, and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1835368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[17530,16087,17529,8669,6703,6263,8863,4230],"class_list":["post-1835365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-90-year-old","tag-beating","tag-candy","tag-catches","tag-nypd","tag-owner","tag-shop","tag-suspect"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1835365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1835368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1835365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1835365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1835365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}