Girl, 12, slashed by fellow student in NYC classroom – second school stabbing in two days

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Girl, 12, slashed by fellow student in NYC classroom — second school stabbing in two days

A 12-year-old girl was slashed by a 14-year-old fellow student inside a Bronx junior high school Wednesday morning – just a day after a teen boy was hurt in a stabbing at his Brooklyn school, cops …

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Girl, 12, slashed by fellow student in NYC classroom – second school stabbing in two days​

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Published Dec. 6, 2023, 12:18 p.m. ET

A 12-year-old girl was slashed by a fellow student in their Bronx classroom Wednesday morning — just a day after a teenage boy was stabbed in the hallway of his Brooklyn high school, cops and sources said.
The suspected attacker, 14, was taken into custody after slashing the pre-teen student in the right leg at J.H.S. 123 James. M Kieran School, on Morrison Avenue near Bruckner in Soundview, around 9:40 a.m., police sources said.
EMS took the victim to Jacobi Medical Center, where she was listed in stable condition.
A knife was recovered after the attack, according to police, who added that the public school does not have a weapons scanning system in place.
Also known also known as the Bronx Urban Community STEAM Magnet School, the junior high counts around 530 students.

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The bloodshed took place just about 24 hours after a stabbing at Edward R. Murrow High School in Midwood, where a 15-year-old boy was attacked by a classmate his own age in what sources said was a gang-related incident, according to cops.


The two boys, who knew each other, were arguing in front of lockers in a hallway on the third floor when one of them knifed the other in the stomach at around 9:20 a.m. Tuesday, police and students said.

A 14-year-old girl was taken into custody in connection to the in-school attack, sources said. Tomas E. Gaston
Anxious parents flocked to the public high school when news of the disturbing violence broke — while the suspect fled the building and stayed in the wind for hours before turning himself in at a police precinct station house.


Police on Wednesday confirmed that the arrested teen was charged with attempted murder, assault with the intent to cause physical injury and criminal possession of a weapon, authorities said.


The NYPD was unable to immediately confirm whether he would be prosecuted as a juvenile or adult.


Students at that school – which also did not have metal detectors installed at the time of the attack – were greeted by the screening devices and a heavy police presence as they showed up for classes Wednesday morning.


“We’re definitely going to have the metal detectors tomorrow!” one sophomore, Owen Matthews, told The Post Tuesday. “They only have them after stabbings like this.”





But Matthews said he doubted students would be deterred from toting weapons – even with the presence of detectors — which would have caught the knife, according to sources.


“Kids just hide their stuff in the park and then they come and get it after school,” he said. “Metal detectors don’t do anything.”