{"id":75632,"date":"2025-12-19T16:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/75632\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T16:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:23:09","slug":"brooklyn-playground-stabbing-12-year-old-boy-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/75632\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn playground stabbing: 12-year-old boy arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 12-year-old boy is facing attempted murder charges after he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/12\/18\/12-year-old-boy-clinging-to-life-after-stabbing-in-brooklyn-park\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stabbed another pre-teen in the chest<\/a> with a kitchen knife during a fight at a Brooklyn playground, officials said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The victim, who is also 12, was in critical but stable condition at <a href=\"https:\/\/onebrooklynhealth.org\/\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/onebrooklynhealth.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brookdale University Hospital<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The two pre-teens got into a fight at\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Betsy+Head+Skatepark\/@40.6641629,-73.9131423,374m\/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x89c25d865b89571f:0x5745fae7a38c5eb!8m2!3d40.664827!4d-73.9119335!16s%2Fg%2F11q87j6cwm?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI1MTIwOS4wIKXMDSoKLDEwMDc5MjA3M0gBUAM%3D\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Betsy+Head+Skatepark\/@40.6641629,-73.9131423,374m\/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x89c25d865b89571f:0x5745fae7a38c5eb!8m2!3d40.664827!4d-73.9119335!16s%2Fg%2F11q87j6cwm?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI1MTIwOS4wIKXMDSoKLDEwMDc5MjA3M0gBUAM%3D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Betsy Head Park<\/a> playground at Thomas S. Boyland St. and Dumont Ave. in Brownsville at 2:53 p.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The two had started punching each other when the suspect pulled out a kitchen knife and jammed it into his rival\u2019s chest, witnesses to the bloody attack said.<\/p>\n<p>Cops did not immediately disclose why the pair were fighting.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"A knife is seen on the ground after a 12-year-old boy was stabbed inside Betsy Head Park.\" width=\"3600\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766161389_846_TNY-GA-251218-stabbing03.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"8639399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News<\/p>\n<p>A knife is seen on the ground after a 12-year-old boy was stabbed inside Betsy Head Park on Thomas S. Boyland Street and Dumont Ave. in Brownsville on Thursday. (Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n<p>After the stabbing, the suspect and another pre-teen ran out of the park, but were quickly grabbed up by responding police officers.<\/p>\n<p>After a brief investigation, cops charged the 12-year-old with attempted murder. He\u2019s expected to be prosecuted as a juvenile offender, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Police did not disclose the suspect\u2019s name because of his age.<\/p>\n<p>Medics rushed the victim to Brookdale University Hospital, where he underwent surgery, cops said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Police investigate after a person was stabbed inside Betsy Head Park.\" width=\"3600\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766161389_741_TNY-GA-251218-stabbing07.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"8639403\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News<\/p>\n<p>Police investigate after a person was stabbed inside Betsy Head Park on Thursday. (Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n<p>The kitchen knife, which had a gray handle, was recovered at the scene as well as a purple backpack, a winter coat and some bloody clothes that were found next to the knife.<\/p>\n<p>Betsy Head Park is a short distance from a high school, P.S.\/I.S. 323 and the Mott Hall Bridges Academy, but it wasn\u2019t clear if the two boys went to either of these schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 12-year-old boy is facing attempted murder charges after he stabbed another pre-teen in the chest with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-75632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75632","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=75632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}