{"id":197448,"date":"2026-04-14T22:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T22:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/197448\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T22:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T22:29:09","slug":"boy-15-slashes-teen-in-face-in-burst-of-violence-in-nyc-high-school-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/197448\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 15, slashes teen in face in burst of violence in NYC high school: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 15-year-old boy slashed another teen in the face in a burst of violence inside their Bronx high school on Monday, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The teen cut the victim, also 15, around 12:50 p.m. inside William H. Taft High School on East 172nd Street near Sheridan Avenue in Mount Eden, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to Harlem Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The young attacker was taken into custody at the scene and charged with assault, criminal possession of a weapon and harassment, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39086439\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/125636040.jpg\" alt=\"The 15-year-old boy allegedly slashed his classmate around 12:50 p.m. Monday inside William H. Taft High School in Mount Eden, authorities said.\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-39086439\"  \/>The 15-year-old boy allegedly slashed his classmate around 12:50 p.m. Monday inside William H. Taft High School in Mount Eden, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It remained unclear Tuesday what sparked the violence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The attack came just over a month after <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/02\/us-news\/girl-11-stabs-boy-12-inside-nyc-middle-school-cops-sources\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an 11-year-old girl stabbed a 12-year-old boy <\/a>inside their Bronx middle school on March 2, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In that case, the girl allegedly knifed the boy in the left arm inside IS 218 in the Concourse neighborhood over a \u201cpast incident\u201d that boiled over, authorities and sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The young girl was taken into custody, the sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 15-year-old boy slashed another teen in the face in a burst of violence inside their Bronx high&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[303,11182,57,9,56,63,65,64,361,4730,129,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-197448","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-high-schools","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-news","16":"tag-slashings","17":"tag-teens","18":"tag-the-bronx","19":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197448","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=197448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}