A 17-year-old student was stabbed near a school in the Bronx on Monday morning.
It happened at 9:30 a.m. outside the William H. Taft High School complex on East 172nd Street near Sheridan Avenue in Claremont, police said. The location houses several schools.
According to police, the teenager was walking to school when he was approached by three suspects. One punched him in the face, and another stabbed him once in the buttocks, police said.
The suspects then ran off.
The victim was rushed to a Harlem Hospital and is recovering.
Steven Nunez, an 11th grader, talked about walking in the area of his school.
“I feel both, like a lot of times safe and unsafe,” Nunez said, as he left campus with his mother. “Usually, I try to calm down and mind my own business.”
The NYPD is currently investigating. At this point, it is unknown what, if any, connection the suspects have to the school.
Anyone with any information is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). You can also submit a tip via the Crime Stoppers website or via DM on X, @NYPDTips. All calls are kept confidential.
In separate incidents, guns were also found Monday at public schools on Staten Island and in Queens.
On Staten Island, the NYPD said it got a call at 10:20 a.m. reporting the gun at Curtis High School on Hamilton Avenue near St. Marks Place.
Police took an 18-year-old into custody. The Department of Education said the gun was found in the student’s bookbag.
“Weapons have no place in our schools or our city. The incident was quickly and safely addressed by our School Safety Agents, and no students or staff were injured. The gun was safely recovered, after a search was conducted of the student’s bookbag. NYPD was called immediately upon discovery of the firearm,” the DOE said in a statement.
In the Queens incident, police said a 17-year-old was arrested at 2:30 p.m. at Career Development High School of Queens in Jamaica, after a gun was found in his backpack after it was detected by a scanner.
There was no immediate word on the charges either teenager could face.
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