A teenager was stabbed to death just steps from a high school in the Bronx yesterday in broad daylight.
The 16-year-old was stabbed twice in the left arm around 2:15 p.m. Friday at the corner of E. 151st Street and Courtlandt Avenue, just steps from Bronx Haven High School, according to Bronx Police. NY.
The injured man is a student at the “Alfred E. Smith Career and Technical Education High School”, an institution that shares a campus with Bronx Haven, he explained. New York Post. The motive for the attack is unclear.
Paramedics took the teen to Lincoln Hospital in stable condition. 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.
Yesterday’s incident adds to a spate of violence at public schools in and around NYC. On Monday a 13-year-old student was hospitalized in critical condition after a 12-year-old classmate stabbed him inside his high school on Long Island (NY).
In mid-March, a 16-year-old teenager was shot on a playground next to an elementary school in the Bronx and the next day another episode of violence occurred at the hospital where he was being treated.
Days before, a 14-year-old student was arrested on suspicion of stabbing another 15-year-old in the leg during a confrontation inside a classroom at a charter high school in Inwood (Upper Manhattan).
That same week a 17-year-old boy was shot outside Martin Luther King High School on the Upper West Side, the first of three gang-related shootings in a five-hour span near schools in Manhattan.
Previously, two 18-year-old students were shot at a warehouse near their school in Brooklyn (NYC) as they left school, continuing the wave of violence that since January led the city’s school chancellor, David Banks, to describe the situation as “ state of emergency”.
Banks has argued that the schools themselves are safe, and attributes the rise in crime to conflicts after school.
In March, a 47-year-old man was shot twice in a shooting outside a Brooklyn public school. In January, also in that county, three teenagers, ages 13, 14 and 15, were charged in the stabbing death of Nyheem Wright, 17, during an apparent fight over a girl after school.