By The newspaper
May 4, 2024, 1:58 PM EDT
A fifteen-year-old girl was arrested and accused of fatally stabbing her teenage neighbor in the chest in the Bronx in broad daylight, using a kitchen knife.
The victim, identified by police as 17-year-old Emery Mizell, was attacked at an apartment building in the Soundview neighborhood, he summarized. The New York Times.
The crime happened just before 2:30 pm on Thursday. during a dispute outside the 1105 Boynton Av. building where Mizell lived. The suspect was her neighbor, she told Daily News the “super” of the building, Armando De La Cruz.
His name has not been released by NYPD because he is a minor. Her adoptive mother said the two minors had been fighting on social media before the stabbing.
I thought they were playing… They were just kids. “Then people ran around looking for tissues to stop the bleeding.”
The detainee was charged with involuntary manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon. Before her arraignment yesterday she was taken to a hospital, according to prosecutors, but they did not detail the reason for that transfer.
Mizell was seen surrounded by a group of 10 young people moments before she was fatally stabbed. The mob of teenagers then fled into the building, leaving the victim bleeding to death, according to a neighbor.
“I thought they were playing,” said witness Jerry White, 61. “They were just kids. “Then people ran around looking for tissues to stop the bleeding.”
Another tenant in the building recounted Mizell’s final moments as he desperately tried to stop the bleeding from his wound. “She was on the ground bleeding… face up,” said the 46-year-old man, who did not want to give her name. “I just held her wound… The knife was on the ground. “It was a kitchen knife.”
He added that Mizell stopped breathing before first responders arrived. She was taken to Jacobi Medical Center, where she was officially pronounced dead. A student at nearby James Monroe High School, she was set to graduate in June and aspired to go to nursing school, according to her grieving father, Tony Mizell.
This crime recalled the homicide that also occurred in The Bronx in 2018 of Lesandro “Junior” Guzmán Feliz, a fifteen-year-old who ran into another warehouse to flee from a gang of gang members, but they dragged him to the street and hacked him to death, when he They apparently confused him with a rival.
Young people are protagonists of armed violence in New York as victims and perpetrators, particularly shootings and attacks with knives in streets, homes, schools, public transportation and businesses. There are also many cases of “stray bullets” that hit people “by mistake” on the streets and even inside the New York Subway. In some shootings the victims are children and the elderly.