{"id":1516034,"date":"2026-06-16T15:55:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T20:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?guid=5d576b9d1dfcf654b924fd74bede3b30"},"modified":"2026-06-16T20:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T01:42:09","slug":"6-injured-in-apparently-targeted-acid-attack-in-new-jersey-juvenile-suspect-arrested-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1516034","title":{"rendered":"6 injured in apparently targeted acid attack in New Jersey, juvenile suspect arrested: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/a5cf7983760818c03fee0fc99a88ab76.png\" alt\/><figcaption>First responders at the scene of a reported acid attack in Jersey City, New Jersey, June 15, 2026. (WABC)<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>(NEW JERSEY) -- Six people were injured, including three teenagers, in an apparently targeted acid attack in New Jersey, police said.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">A juvenile has been arrested in connection with the incident, with charges pending, a police spokesperson said Tuesday.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">The incident occurred Monday night in a residential area of Jersey City, officials said.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">The victims were outside when \"individuals riding in a vehicle drove up and threw what is believed to be sulfuric acid at them,\" Kim Wallace Scalcione, a spokesperson for Jersey City's Department of Public Safety, said in a statement.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">\"The incident appears to have been targeted and may have stemmed from a dispute between a large group of people earlier in the day,\" she said.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">The victims were transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, including skin burns and peeling. One of the victims, a 21-year-old woman, was transferred to a burn unit on Tuesday to be treated for second-degree burns to her face and scalp, Wallace Scalcione said.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">Jersey City Mayor James Solomon said he has directed police to \"use its full resources\" on the investigation, which remains ongoing.<\/p><p class=\"p1\">\"My thoughts are with those hurt in this horrific attack, and I want our communities to know that violence like this has absolutely no place on our streets,\" Solomon said in a statement.<\/p><p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First responders at the scene of a reported acid attack in Jersey City, New Jersey, June 15, 2026. (WABC)(NEW JERSEY) &#8212; Six people were injured, including three teenagers, in an apparently targeted acid attack in New Jersey, police said.A juvenile has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":1516039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/a5cf7983760818c03fee0fc99a88ab76.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1447],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1516034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abc-national-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 06:03:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/a5cf7983760818c03fee0fc99a88ab76.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1516034"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1516040,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516034\/revisions\/1516040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1516039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1516034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1516034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1516034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}