(Washington Insider Magazine) – A 16-year-old boy was seriously stabbed in the stomach in broad daylight while leaving school in the Bronx in an apparent dispute with another boy over a girl.
A 16-year-old boy was seriously stabbed in the stomach near a Bronx school in an apparent dispute with another boy over a girl.
The attack happened on Tuesday around 2:30 p.m. as the victim was leaving school with his girlfriend, New York Police Chief of Detectives James Essig said yesterday at a news conference.
In a similar case, this weekend three teenagers aged just 13, 14 and 15 have been charged in the stabbing death of Nyheem Wright (17) during an apparent fight over a girl after school in Brooklyn on January 20.
Man Injured on Tuesday
At first it was said that the man injured on Tuesday was a student at the famous Celia Cruz Bronx High School of Music, but police later identified him as a student at the adjacent International School for Liberal Arts. His name has not been released.
“He is in critical condition. So this is not random. He [was] specifically targeted,” Essig told reporters. “We think it could be that the perpetrator and the victim are fighting over the same girl,” he added, quoted by the New York Post.
Essig said the attacker, who was still on the run yesterday, allegedly used to date the victim’s girlfriend, who also fled.
“Witnesses who know the two individuals say they have been discussing this for the past few months,” he said. NYPD is searching for five suspects who fled the scene of the stabbing on foot and reviewing security camera footage
No arrests have been made or suspects identified. Anyone with information should call 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) and in Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). Also through crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by text to 274637 (CRIMES), followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.
So far in 2023, several serious cases of violence have been reported in and around schools in NYC.
In January, an 18-year-old boy was stabbed in the back outside a Lower Manhattan high school. Also in January, two minors were stabbed to death in gang attacks in Queens and Brooklyn, just hours apart. One of the cases happened behind Flushing High School.
In addition, a 13-year-old boy was arrested after a shooting that left two teenagers injured in front of a Queens high school. That same week, another 13-year-old boy was detained by police after he was caught with a gun in his backpack at a Bronx high school. Later that day, also in that county, a Hispanic teen was fatally shot and another was injured outside a night basketball game.
Another 14-year-old student was arrested after a loaded handgun was seized from his high school in Queens on the first day of school in 2023.
Young people are increasingly protagonists in gun violence in New York as victims and perpetrators, particularly shootings and attacks with bladed weapons. In September an NYPD report found that recidivism among teens had risen sharply over the past five years and the number of gunmen and their underage victims had tripled.
This article is authored by EI Diario.
