A 14-year-old boy was fatally stabbed and a 17-year-old boy was wounded after violence broke out inside a Bronx park on Tuesday evening, according to the police and witnesses.
The younger boy, identified by the police as Angel Mendoza, was stabbed several times and died of his injuries on Tuesday night, the police said. The 17-year-old, whose name has not been released by the police, was found with at least two stab wounds. On Wednesday morning, he was in stable condition at a nearby hospital.
No arrests have been made, the police said.
The violence erupted under a hazy late-summer sky at the Williamsbridge Oval Playground in the Norwood neighborhood. As evening set in, a group consisting mostly of teenagers got into a verbal dispute inside the park, which soon turned bloody, the police said.
It was not immediately clear what had prompted the fighting or whether the attack on the older boy was connected to Angel’s death.
According to Betsy Abril, 37, a vendor who was selling summertime treats on the south side of the park on Tuesday evening, a group of teenagers ran over to Angel and converged, attacking him.
Ms. Abril, who was about 200 feet away, said she spun around when she saw the attack and ushered her children, 11 and 3, into her concession cart. “It all happened so fast,” she said in an interview on Wednesday.
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