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17-year-old fatally stabbed in Queens
The NYPD is investigating the latest incident of violence against the city's teenagers after a 17-year-old girl was stabbed to death in Queens late Wednesday.
QUEENS - Police say they have arrested and charged a 15-year-old girl after a 17-year-old girl was stabbed to death on Wednesday night outside a Queens subway station.
The victim has been identified as Sara Rivera.
The 15-year-old girl is facing charges of second-degree murder and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon.
Police say that on at around 9:25 p.m. Wednesday, officers responded to a 911 call reporting a stabbing victim near the 46th Street–Bliss Street subway station entrance in Sunnyside.
According to authorities, they found Rivera with a stab wound in her neck. She was taken to Elmhurst Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Sources say a person of interest, who is also a teenage girl, is in custody. FOX 5 NY is told the dispute that led up to the stabbing took place in the stairwell leading up to the elevated train tracks.
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Teen fatally shot in Soho
On Tuesday, police say Mahki Brown, who was just 16, was shot and killed near Varick and Spring streets in Soho.
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Brown was an avid basketball player who commuted from East Flatbush to attend Broome Street Academy Charter High School, a short distance from where he was shot. Neighbor Lakesha Jenkins has known him since he was five.
"When we send our children out, whether it's to the store, to school, wherever, we expect our children to come back home to us," she said.
Brown was shot once in the head and his right thigh. He was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Police are looking for two male suspects who fled on Spring Street following the shooting.
Teen stabbed to death in the Bronx
Last week, police said a 15-year-old girl fatally stabbed a 17-year-old girl, identified as Emery Mizell, in the Soundview section of the Bronx.
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Bronx deadly stabbing
A 17-year-old girl has died after she was stabbed in the Bronx, the NYPD said.
According to police, Mizell was stabbed in the chest. She was rushed to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Police charged the 15-year-old with murder, manslaughter and unlawful possession of a weapon.