{"id":124556,"date":"2026-02-06T00:20:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T00:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/124556\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T00:20:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T00:20:20","slug":"boy-13-busted-for-allegedly-stabbing-nyc-school-safety-agent-who-tried-to-break-up-after-school-brawl-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/124556\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 13, busted for allegedly stabbing NYC school safety agent who tried to break up after-school brawl: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 13-year-old boy was arrested for allegedly stabbing a Brooklyn school safety agent as she tried to break up an brawl between two middle schoolers, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The teen is accused of knifing the agent, a 53-year-old woman, in her calf as she intervened in the 3:10 p.m. Wednesday scuffle on Beverley Road near Ralph Avenue, steps from IS 285, the Meyer Levin Middle School for the Performing Arts in East Flatbush, police said.<\/p>\n<p>He was quickly arrested and charged with felony assault, authorities said Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38398803\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/13-year-old-boy-charged-120472978.jpg\" alt=\"The 13-year-old boy allegedly stabbed the agent in the calf outside IS 285, the Meyer Levin Middle School for the Performing Arts in East Flatbush, cops said.\" class=\"wp-image-38398803\"  \/>The 13-year-old boy allegedly stabbed the agent in the calf outside IS 285, the Meyer Levin Middle School for the Performing Arts in East Flatbush, cops said. ABC 7<\/p>\n<p>He is expected to be prosecuted as a juvenile, with his case proceeding in Family Court.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The agent was taken to the Kings County Hospital Center, where she is listed in stable condition, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The school is home to about 750 students from grades 6, 7 and 8.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38398804\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/authorities-respond-pepper-spray-incident-120472720.jpg\" alt=\"Authorities respond to a pepper spray incident at Meyer Levins Junior High School in Brooklyn on Thursday afternoon. The incident allegedly effected up to 25 students. \" class=\"wp-image-38398804\"  \/>The teen was charged with felony assault, and his case will likely proceed in Family Court.  Daniel William McKnight<\/p>\n<p>The building does not have metal detectors in place to detect weapons as students enter the building, law enforcement sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 13-year-old boy was arrested for allegedly stabbing a Brooklyn school safety agent as she tried to break&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[98,303,1873,57,9,56,63,65,64,9954,2442,4730,58],"class_list":["post-124556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-brooklyn","tag-crime","tag-flatbush","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-school-safety","tag-stabbings","tag-teens","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}