{"id":150463,"date":"2026-03-03T02:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T02:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/150463\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T02:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T02:00:11","slug":"girl-11-stabs-boy-12-inside-nyc-middle-school-cops-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/150463\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl, 11, stabs boy, 12, inside NYC middle school: cops, sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An 11-year-old girl stabbed a 12-year-old boy inside their Bronx middle school Monday \u2013 minutes before a pre-teen unleashed pepper spray in his Queens school\u2019s cafeteria, sending two kids to the hospital, cops and sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The girl allegedly slashed the boy in the left arm with a kitchen knife minutes after 11 a.m. inside IS 218 on Gerard Avenue near East 167th Street in Concourse, authorities and sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The young victim was taken to Lincoln Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.47976879;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38653912\" width=\"873\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/boy-12-stabbed-girl-11-122632831.jpg\" alt=\"P.S.\/I.S. 218 Rafael Hernandez Dual Language Magnet School\" class=\"wp-image-38653912\"  \/>An 11-year-old girl stabbed a 12-year-old boy in the left arm with a kitchen knife inside IS 218 on Gerard Avenue near East 167th Street in Concourse, cops and sources said. Google maps<\/p>\n<p>His assailant was taken into custody, the sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The violence stemmed from a \u201cpast incident\u201d that boiled over between the two middle schoolers, the sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The school does not have metal detectors installed, and only has one school safety agent for its 800 students, sources added.<\/p>\n<p>Across the city, in an unrelated incident around 11:20 a.m., an 11-year-old student released pepper spray in the cafeteria of JHS 217 on 144th Street in Briarwood, police and sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50367107;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38653911\" width=\"887\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/boy-12-stabbed-girl-11-122633005.jpg\" alt=\"J.H.S. 217 Robert A. Van Wyck in Queens\" class=\"wp-image-38653911\"  \/>An 11-year-old student released pepper spray in the cafeteria of JHS 217 on 144th Street in Briarwood, cops and sources said. Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>About 100 students were having lunch in the room at the time, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Two 12-year-old students \u2013 one boy and one girl \u2013 were taken to the Elmhurst Hospital Center for treatment, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two students were taken into custody and the pepper spray was recovered, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The school is part of a campus that has a student population of about 1,300, with only three school safety agents assigned, the sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 11-year-old girl stabbed a 12-year-old boy inside their Bronx middle school Monday \u2013 minutes before a pre-teen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[303,57,32205,9,56,63,65,64,122,2442,129,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-150463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-middle-schools","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-news","16":"tag-queens","17":"tag-stabbings","18":"tag-the-bronx","19":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150463","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=150463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}