{"id":268957,"date":"2026-06-16T22:00:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T22:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/268957\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T22:00:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T22:00:46","slug":"teen-stabbed-in-gut-by-3-strangers-at-midtown-chipotle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/268957\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen stabbed in gut by 3 strangers at Midtown Chipotle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 17-year-old boy was stabbed by three strangers during a dispute in a Midtown Chipotle on Monday afternoon, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The teen was seriously injured when he was knifed in the torso, right hand and right cheek during the 2:40 p.m. clash at the fast-food joint on Eighth Avenue near West 51st Street in Manhattan, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not clear what sparked the dispute, but one of the teen\u2019s attackers was armed with two knives, cops said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39694806\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/17-year-old-boy-seriously-131182315.jpg\" alt=\"The 17-year-old victim was knifed in the torso, right hand and right cheek during a mid-afternoon fight inside the fast food joint on Eighth Avenue near West 51st Street, cops said.\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-39694806\"  \/>The 17-year-old victim was knifed during a mid-afternoon fight inside the fast food joint on Eighth Avenue near West 51st Street in Manhattan, cops said.\u00a0 Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to Weill Cornell Medical Center, where he was listed in serious but stable condition, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Dawson and Richard Benitez, both 20, and Justin Mercado, 19, were all charged with felony assault and criminal possession of a weapon in connection with the violence, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Dawson was found to be carrying the two knives when he was arrested, but it was not clear which of the three allegedly stabbed the victim, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>All three are strangers to the victim, the sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 17-year-old boy was stabbed by three strangers during a dispute in a Midtown Chipotle on Monday afternoon,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[3283,34594,303,75,84,83,57,360,9,24,63,2442,4730,58],"class_list":["post-268957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-arrests","tag-chipotle-mexican-grill","tag-crime","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-metro","tag-midtown","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-stabbings","tag-teens","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268957","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=268957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}