What to Know
- A group of teens punched a 17-year-old boy and slashed his head with a knife in an incident police are describing as a gang assault
- The boy was in the Fordham Manor section of the Bronx when the group attacked him, police said
- He was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was treated for the laceration on his head
A group of teens punched a 17-year-old boy and slashed his head with a knife in an incident police are describing as a gang assault.
The 17-year-old was near East 196th Street and Jerome Avenue in the Fordham Manor neighborhood of the Bronx around 8:30 a.m. on June 8 when a group of male teenagers between the ages of 14 and 18 approached him, slashed his head with a knife and punched him, the NYPD said.
The victim was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was treated for the laceration on his head, police said.
The teens who allegedly attacked the boy were caught on surveillance tape that has been released by the NYPD.
Police say the teens that attacked the boy may have been part of the same gang that killed 15-year-old "Junior" Guzman-Feliz and attacked a 14-year-old boy in the middle of a highway.
Anyone with information about the attack is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS.
