{"id":196159,"date":"2026-04-13T23:34:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T23:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196159\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T23:34:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T23:34:39","slug":"teenage-boy-slashed-in-neck-and-face-at-bronx-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196159\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage boy slashed in neck and face at Bronx high school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 15-year-old boy was slashed in the face and neck inside a Bronx high school on Monday, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was attacked as he walked to class at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/William+H+Taft+High+School+Educational+Campus\/@40.8401304,-73.9122726,18.25z\/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x89c2f440b0aa3a31:0x3ba6a32f5f648c22!8m2!3d40.8394459!4d-73.9118711!16s%2Fg%2F1jkx9px0l?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDQwOC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">William Taft High School<\/a> in Morrisania around 12:15 p.m., according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The teen was wounded on the side of his neck and forehead at the school located on E. 172nd St. near Sheridan Ave., officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Medics rushed him to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nychealthandhospitals.org\/locations\/harlem\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harlem Hospital<\/a>, where he\u2019s expected to survive.<\/p>\n<p>A 15-year-old boy, who also attends the high school was arrested at the scene and charged with assault, criminal possession of a weapon and harassment. His name is being withheld due to his age.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is absolutely no place for weapons of any kind in our schools,\u201d a Department of Education spokesperson said. \u201cThe incident was quickly addressed by our school staff, who worked in lockstep with our partners from the NYPD\/SSD. We will be providing additional support to the school community in the coming days.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 15-year-old boy was slashed in the face and neck inside a Bronx high school on Monday, cops&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-196159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-city","10":"tag-county","11":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-new-york-county","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-nyc-crime","20":"tag-sub-county-region","21":"tag-the-bronx","22":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","23":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196159","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=196159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}