{"id":133101,"date":"2026-02-14T00:04:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T00:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/133101\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T00:04:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T00:04:29","slug":"boy-16-arrested-at-nyc-high-school-after-menacing-fellow-student-with-loaded-gun-during-fight-cops-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/133101\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 16, arrested at NYC high school after menacing fellow student with loaded gun during fight: cops, sources"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 16-year-old boy was arrested at a Queens high school Thursday after he allegedly menaced a fellow student with a loaded gun during a fight, cops and sources said.<\/p>\n

The teen flashed the gun during a clash with another youth around 1:50 p.m. inside Martin Van Buren High School on Hillside Avenue near 232nd Street in Bellrose Manor, according to the NYPD and law enforcement sources.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When the school administration found out, the building was placed on lock down \u2013 but the fleet-footed teen had already bolted, the sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"MartinThe teen was fighting with another student inside Martin Van Buren High School when he flashed the loaded gun, cops and sources said. Google Maps<\/p>\n

When school safety agents found out, they called 911 and officers from the 105th Precinct soon caught up with the fleeing teen and recovered his weapon, according to the sources.<\/p>\n

He was arrested and charged with criminal possession of a weapon, menacing and obstructing governmental administration, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"MartinThe armed teen fled from the school, but was quickly arrested by responding officers, sources said. Google Maps<\/p>\n

The school does not have scanners in place to detect weapons, according to the sources.<\/p>\n

The bust comes about a month after three city teens were caught with guns<\/a> in city schools in one week \u2013 two of them in a single day, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 16-year-old boy was arrested at a Queens high school Thursday after he allegedly menaced a fellow student…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[3283,4542,11182,57,9,24,63,122,124,123,5271,4730,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-133101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-arrests","9":"tag-guns","10":"tag-high-schools","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-queens","16":"tag-queens-headlines","17":"tag-queens-news","18":"tag-schools","19":"tag-teens","20":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133101","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=133101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}