QUEENS, NY – The latest incident of escalating youth violence in NYC resulted in the death of a 17-year-old girl who was stabbed near a Queens subway station on Wednesday night, according to the NYPD. The fatal stabbing took place near the 46th Street- Bliss Street subway station in Sunnyside around 9:25 p.m.
When they arrived at the scene of the stabbing, police officers discovered the teenager with a life-threatening stab wound sustained in her neck. She was rushed to Elmhurst Hospital, where she succumbed to her injuries.
Authorities detained another teenage girl believed to be connected to the brutal attack, indicating that a disagreement transpired in the stairwell leading to the train tracks.
In another recent incident of violence involving young people, two teenage boys were stabbed outside a McDonald’s outlet on Wednesday afternoon in the Bronx’s Crotona Park neighborhood. Fortunately, their injuries were not considered life-threatening.
On Tuesday, another tragic death occurred when 16-year-old Mahki Brown was shot near Varick and Spring streets in Soho. A committed basketball player, Brown, resided in East Flatbush but frequented Soho’s Broome Street Academy Charter High School, a short distance from the shooting site. He was pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital after sustaining critical gunshot wounds to the head and right thigh. NYPD is currently seeking two male suspects associated with the shooting.