A teenager was fatally stabbed in the Bronx on Wednesday afternoon after a fight escalated into violence, police said Thursday as they looked for the person responsible.<\/p>\n
NYPD officials said Jonathan Melo, 17, was with a group of people outside a building on Beach and McGraw avenues in Soundview around 4:30 p.m. He got into a verbal altercation with someone that turned physical, and was stabbed in his back, according to police.<\/p>\n
First responders took Melo in critical condition to Jacobi Hospital, where he later died, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Police did not make any immediate arrests or release a description of a possible suspect. They said they were still investigating whether Melo knew whoever stabbed him.<\/p>\n
Melo lived in the Bronx, about a mile from where he was attacked, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n
The incident comes as officials say teens have been involved either as victims or suspects<\/a> in a recent spate of violence affecting young people in different parts of New York City.<\/p>\n That includes a shooting in a Queens park that killed 15-year-old Jaden Pierre<\/a> and a shooting at an East New York bodega that killed 16-year-old Marquise Byfield.<\/p>\n Police said they are still looking for the person who shot a 15-year-old boy on an A train in Queens earlier this week. The shooting left the boy on life support<\/a>, according to his family.<\/p>\n