Three students were injured during a fight with knives and fists outside “Spring Valley High School” in Rockland County, 30 miles north of NYC yesterday afternoon.
The brawl reportedly broke out in the school parking lot at dismissal time at 2: 10 pm The superintendent reported that three students were injured: two suffered lacerations with a knife and a third he was punched in the face.
School officials said the stabbing was the result of an argument between students and that the fight was broken up by school security. A student was left in police custody, highlighted Fox News.
The student with the most serious injury is a young man from 19 years that was not identified. An investigation into the origin of the incident is ongoing.
Similar incidents have been happening frequently in public schools in and around NYC throughout this school year, as the city experiences a spike in violence that many experts link to illegal drug trafficking. guns among youth.
In early April, on the same day two students stabbed each other during a fight and a gun was found in a Manhattan classroom. Less than a week later, two teenagers were stabbed to death during a school parade celebrating the state championship season for the Mount Vernon High School basketball team in Westchester.
Also this month, a Brooklyn high school student was arrested after a security officer found 40 bullets in his backpack. Previously, in February, a 7-year-old boy was found with a gun in Queens. In late January, a 14 year old student brought a backpack full of guns to his school in Chelsea .
In December they were found 21 weapons of various kinds in a single morning after placing a metal detector in a school in Brooklyn (NYC) where the previous day a student of 17 years had been arrested with a loaded 9mm pistol and more than $30,10 dollars in your backpack.
This school year numerous weapons have been recovered in schools in the city and its surroundings, including three pistols on the same day in October while First Lady Jill Biden was visiting a campus in the Bronx. There were also several episodes of shootings and stabbings in school zones last fall in NYC.