{"id":150299,"date":"2026-03-02T23:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T23:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/150299\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T23:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T23:32:08","slug":"students-at-queens-school-narrowly-avoid-being-pepper-sprayed-during-accidental-discharge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/150299\/","title":{"rendered":"Students at Queens school narrowly avoid being pepper-sprayed during accidental discharge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students at a Queens junior high school narrowly avoided being dosed by pepper-spray after a canister of the non-lethal weapon was accidentally discharged during a fight in the school\u2019s cafeteria Monday, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The pepper-spray was activated inside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schools.nyc.gov\/schools\/Q217&#039;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JHS 217 Robert A. Van Wyck Middle School<\/a> located in Briarwood around 11:21 a.m., according to law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Although the discharge occurred during a fight, it is believed to be unintentional and none of the students involved were directly struck, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Two boys and one girl at the 144th St. school near 85th Ave. were taken to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nychealthandhospitals.org\/elmhurst\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elmhurst Hospital<\/a> for a checkup, but suffered no apparent injuries, said police.<\/p>\n<p>It is not illegal to carry pepper-spray in NYC for anyone 18 or older. No charges are expected to be filed, cops said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Students at a Queens junior high school narrowly avoided being dosed by pepper-spray after a canister of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,122,124,123,265],"class_list":["post-150299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150299","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=150299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}