{"id":349220,"date":"2026-09-17T12:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T12:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/349220\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T12:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T12:28:10","slug":"2-people-stabbed-2-suspects-in-custody-at-new-york-community-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/349220\/","title":{"rendered":"2 people stabbed, 2 suspects in custody at New York community college"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two people were <a data-ylk=\"slk:stabbed during an altercation at a community college in New York;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lohud.com\/story\/news\/2026\/09\/16\/westchester-community-college-stabbing-valhalla\/91795490007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">stabbed during an altercation at a community college in New York<\/a> on Sept. 16, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The stabbing unfolded at SUNY Westchester Community College in Valhalla, New York, outside of New York City. Police responded to the scene after receiving multiple calls reporting a stabbing at about 12:40 p.m. According to the Westchester County Police Department, two suspects were taken into custody and a knife was recovered at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There was no ongoing threat to the community and no other suspects are being sought, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The stabbing happened amid a &#8220;dispute that turned physical,&#8221; police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The two injured victims were taken to Westchester Medical Center, one with serious injuries, according to police. Both suspects were also taken to a different hospital for injuries from the fight, but neither was stabbed, the police department said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Westchester County Police spokesperson told the Journal News, part of the USA TODAY Network, that the four people involved all knew each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It&#8217;s just shocking,&#8221; witness Leonardo Rivera, a 21-year-old student, told the Journal News. &#8220;I have no words.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SUNY Westchester Community College&#8217;s Office of the President said in a statement its student center was closed after the stabbing, but was later reopened, and all other buildings and operations went on as normal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Our top priority is ensuring a safe and welcoming campus environment for students, faculty, and staff,&#8221; the school said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Contributing: Rockland\/Westchester Journal News<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: <a data-ylk=\"slk:2 people stabbed, 2 suspects in custody at New York community college;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/crime\/2026\/09\/17\/stabbing-community-college-westchester-new-york\/91805103007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">2 people stabbed, 2 suspects in custody at New York community college<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people were stabbed during an altercation at a community college in New York on Sept. 16, police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56,26492,130538,15352,130539],"class_list":["post-349220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-valhalla","tag-westchester-community-college","tag-westchester-county-police","tag-westchester-medical-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349220","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=349220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}