A 15-year-old was stabbed in the stomach by a classmate inside a Brooklyn high school, police said, and a teenage suspect was later brought into custody.
The violence broke out around 9:30 a.m. Tuesday in a third-floor hallway of Edward Murrow High School in the Midwood neighborhood, according to police. The victim was stabbed once in the stomach and was rushed to Maimonides Children's Hospital, where he is expected to survive, police said.
An official with the city's Department of Education said the building on Avenue L and East 17th Street was briefly placed on lockdown following the stabbing, but it was lifted before noon.
The suspect, a 16-year-old fellow student at the school, took off immediately afterward, wearing a black jacket and sweat pants, along with a black winter hat. Police said that a person was in custody before 5 p.m.
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The union that represents school safety agents told NBC New York that the school does not have metal detectors, which many parents were asking about in the wake of the stabbing. In response, New York City Mayor Eric Adams said that "I’m a believer in scanning to keep school’s safe, but as you know, there’s a balance. Because there’s a large number of parents that push back on scanning."
Adams added that police and education leaders were looking at which schools need non-intrusive scanners.
No other students were hurt in the incident. Classes resumed inside the school in the afternoon. A motive for the attack was not immediately clear, and an investigation is ongoing.
