A children’s basketball game ended in extreme violence when a sore loser stabbed a 13 year-old boy in the chest in a park in the Bronx in broad daylight.
Apparently the attacker was enraged because the boy was beating him in a basketball game at Marble Hill Park around 3 : 26 pm on Saturday and therefore cut him in the chest with an unknown object, according to the police.
The injured man was transported to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition Saturday night. No arrests were announced at the time and there was no information on the attacker’s age, reported New York Post.
Last month, a teenager from 19 years old was stabbed in the stomach by a group of teenagers during a fight at the Staten Island ferry terminal. Days before, an alleged gang was captured on video violently harassing a minor of 13 years on a street in Upper Manhattan, beating him and stealing his shoes in broad daylight.
In May three teenagers were stabbed to death on an MTA bus at the end of school hours on the Upper East Side of Manhattan (NYC). And in June a group of at least eight suspected youth gang members assaulted a 26 year-old boy at gunpoint on Brooklyn Bridge Park and gathered to film the violent experience.
Underage victims and perpetrators are increasingly protagonists in armed violence in New York, particularly shootings and attacks with bladed weapons.
A recent report from the NYPD found that recidivism among teens increased dramatically over the past five years.