A 16-year-old student was seriously injured yesterday when he was assaulted and stabbed in a group outside his high school in The Bronx (NYC).
The teenager, a student at the iconographic Celia Cruz Bronx High School of Music, was robbed by about five people on Jerome Ave. and W. 195th St. in the Kingsbridge Heights neighborhood, yesterday just after school around 2:05 p.m.
During the altercation, the minor was stabbed in the stomach. He was rushed to Jacobi Medical Center, where he was reported in critical condition last night. It is not clear the reason for the brawl or if the attackers are also students from that secondary school.
A construction worker watching from an upper floor of a nearby building told the Daily News how the attackers ran away. “He was stabbed, thrown face up on the street,” said the witness, who did not want to be named. “A guy jumped out of his car, tried to help him. He was screaming, ‘Oh my God! Oh my God!'”
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. This weekend three teenagers, ages 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.
That same afternoon, an 18-year-old teenager was stabbed in the back outside a Lower Manhattan high school. Also this month 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.
In early January, another 14-year-old student was arrested after a loaded handgun was seized from his Queens high school 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.