16-year-old boy slashed inside NYC high school: cops

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16-year-old boy slashed inside NYC high school: cops

The victim was cut once in the chest with a knife around noon inside Manhattan Business Academy on West 18th Street near Ninth Avenue in Chelsea, cops and police sources said.

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16-year-old boy slashed inside NYC high school: cops​

By
Amanda Woods,
Craig McCarthy and
Jack Morphet


May 2, 2023 3:05pm
Updated

A 16-year-old boy was slashed in the chest inside Manhattan Business Academy, located inside Bayard Rustin Educational Complex in Chelsea, cops said.


A 16-year-old boy was slashed inside a Manhattan high school Tuesday afternoon, authorities said.
The teen was cut once in the chest with a knife around noon inside Manhattan Business Academy — housed within the Bayard Rustin Educational Complex on West 18th Street near Ninth Avenue in Chelsea, cops and police sources said.
Two suspects are being sought, one of whom is a 17-year-old boy, the sources said.

The boy was taken to Bellevue Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. G.N.Miller/NYPost The boy was attacked inside one of several schools housed in the building.G.N.Miller/NYPost
The victim was taken to Bellevue Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said. Authorities could not officially confirm he is a student at the school


Information on the second suspect was not immediately known.


An 11th grade student named Isrrael who attends Hudson High School of Learning Technologies — also housed in the same building — said he saw the victim sitting shirtless in a wheelchair inside the school as EMTs attended to him.


“The kid was in a wheelchair,” Isrrael said. “He had his shirt off.”

Police are still looking for the suspects, at least one of them described as also a teen.
“They didn’t lock the school down. Our teacher just kept us in for a few minutes while they took him out and then we were allowed to leave.”


One student brushed the attack off — telling The Post the boy was fine.


“It was an X-Acto knife. Like an arts and crafts knife.”





But another sixth-grader said she was uncomfortable in school.


“I was in the stairwell going to the library when I heard the screaming. It was a blood-curdling scream,” the 12-year-old said.


“I don’t want to come to school tomorrow.”