Two students in Queens are recovering after being stabbed during a street fight outside their high school. The incident worries parents and students who say these fights are happening too often.
The fight occurred in front of the John David Adams school in the Ozone Park neighborhood, leaving two students injured, one seriously.
John David Adams Public School.
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Some paterfamilias in the area reacted indignantly. They assure that this is not the first time that incidents like this have happened in this educational establishment: “I want to take my daughter out of this school. Very bad, there are always fights inside, outside, wherever,” explains Radames Santiago, father of a student.
For her part, Bela Matias, the mother of a student, said: “This should not happen in a school. The school should be safe.”
The attack happened at about 10:30 in the morning. One of the victims, aged 16, received two stab wounds, one in her left leg and the other in her back. But she is in stable condition.
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The other teen, 17, was stabbed three times in the abdomen and is in critical condition, according to authorities. They are both in Jamaica Hospital.
This brawl has raised concern among parents and students. This is how Ronny Pérez, a local student, put it: “I don’t feel very safe, I don’t feel very safe.”
These students believed that the fight occurred inside the school, because they saw a video of one of the victims inside the campus.
Rosibel Pérez, student.
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Rosibel Pérez, another student, explains: “What happened with that boy was impressive, because there are always security machines and it was impossible for that boy to enter there.”
But the Department of Education sent a statement clarifying that after the fight, the victims were sheltered inside the campus.
In this school there are metal detectors at all its entrances but, according to community activists, the scaffolding is the hiding place for the sharp weapons of the students who do not bring these knives into the school, but do retrieve them on their way out.
Sam Esposito, presidente de Ozone Park Block Association.
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And according to Sam Esposito, president of the Ozone Park Block Association: “Because we have reports from students telling us. We reported this to the school and told school security that they needed to look around the school and check the scaffolding because there were knives hidden there. Apparently nothing was done because a knife was used today and I guarantee you the knife was on the scaffolding.”
Authorities are currently investigating this incident.
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