Teen slashed in face at NYC school — third student stabbed in three days
A 15-year-old boy was slashed in the face by a fellow student during a fight at his Bronx charter school Thursday — the third burst of violence among Big Apple schoolkids in as many days, according to cops and police sources.
The unidentified student was rushed to Lincoln Hospital in stable condition following the attack at the AECI Charter School in Melrose, cops said.
Another 15-year-old boy was taken into custody and charged with assault, the NYPD confirmed.
He will be prosecuted in family court as a juvenile, according to the Bronx District Attorney’s Office.
The two students were “fooling around” when one of them pulled out what’s believed to be a box cutter and slashed the other’s face, sources said.
“They were just OK fighting and then it got serious,” freshman Delvin Wilkinson, 14, said outside the school. “The knife got taken out and he got slashed.”
The suspected slasher “came down with the knife in his hand and then he ran down the hall,” the teen said, adding, “The person he was fighting with, he had blood on him.”
The building was placed on lockdown in the aftermath of the bloodshed, as worried parents rushed to the school, among them Wilkinson’s mom, Shakia Johnson.
“I’m very scared,” she said. “I came all the way from work, rushing to get her all the way from Queens.
“She’s traumatized,” Johnson added about her daughter. “I’m going to keep her home tomorrow because we have to see what happens tomorrow.”
Jabrielle Warington, a senior at AECI, told The Post that being placed on lockdown was itself frightening.
“I didn’t really feel safe like that,” the 17-year-old said. “They said there was something dangerous going on in the school.
“The metal detectors that we do have in the school, they should detect something like that,” she said. “It turns out that it’s probably faulty.”
Worried dad Nas Water said he was learned of the slashing through an email from the school around 2 p.m. and hustled to get his son.
“It’s a great school, but you got kids that ain’t playing with kids no more,” said Water, whose son is a 10th grader. “I think it happens at a lot of schools. A lot of kids are passing through with things.
“But that’s New York City,” he said. “Everybody carries a knife these days.”
The bloodshed came just a day after a 12-year-old girl was slashed in the leg by a fellow student Wednesday at JHS 123 James. M. Kieran School in the Soundview section of the Bronx.
The suspect in that attack, an eighth-grade girl, 14, and the victim got into a scuffle inside a classroom, possibly related to a social media spat, according to sources.
On Tuesday, a 15-year-old boy at Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn was stabbed after a fight with another teen, according to police.
The student was knifed in the stomach and rushed to Maimonides Medical Center’s children’s hospital, where he is expected to recover, cops said.
“They need better security,” said one concerned resident outside AEIC on Thursday, waiting for his girlfriend, an administrator at the school.
“There shouldn’t be a weapon in the school to begin with,” said the man, who would only give his name as Jay. “I hope they do something about it because that’s awful. It shouldn’t have happened.”
