14-year-old stabbed in Bronx hours before tourist, 43, knifed in chest in Times Square: cops
A 14-year-old was stabbed multiple times in the Bronx Saturday afternoon, hours before a tourist was slashed near Times Square, cops and sources said.
Police responded to a slashing call just before 2:30 p.m. at the corner of Hunts Point Avenue and Bruckner Boulevard in the Bronx, where a 14-year-old boy was found conscious and alert with two stab wounds in his back, cops said.
The teen was brought to Harlem Hospital, where he was in stable condition, cops said, becoming the latest victim in what has amounted to a bloody week for New York City teens.
No suspects have been arrested and the investigation is ongoing, police said.
Just four hours later, a 46-year-old tourist was stabbed in the chest in an unprovoked attack at the intersection of West 43rd and Eighth Avenue, sources told The Post.
The woman was rushed to the Bellvue Hospital in stable condition, the NYPD said.
A knife was recovered from the busy Midtown cross street, and her suspected attacker was taken into custody, but no charges have been filed, according to sources.
Saturday’s attacks add to a terrifying rash of violence, particularly among New York City youths.
At least two teens were killed and six others wounded in a frightening spate of shootings and stabbings over the course of just two days earlier this month.
Among the dead are a 16-year-old basketball lover who was shot dead on a Soho street and a 17-year-old girl who was fatally knifed in the neck outside a Queens subway station.
On Friday, an 11-year-old girl was slashed in the back of her head by a madman who had just punched another woman in the face. The young girl — though traumatized — survived the attack.
