Sara Rivera Death, Police identified 17 year old girl stabbed in Queens, NY: According to authorities and sources, a 15-year-old girl is being held after another adolescent was fatally slashed in the neck outside a Queens subway station.
Authorities confirmed that Sara Rivera, 17, was the victim of the late-night knife attack on Wednesday. This was the most recent incident in a string of violent incidents that left teenagers injured or dead. Soon after the stabbing, authorities said that a person of interest had been brought into custody.
Subsequently, the New York Daily News revealed that the individual under arrest was a 15-year-old girl. To a Patch reporter, an NYPD representative was unable to corroborate that. After receiving a 911 call at 9:25 p.m., NYPD officers were called to the 46th Street-Bliss Street station in Sunnyside. There, they discovered the youngster had been stabbed in the neck, according to officials. After being taken to Elmhurst Hospital via ambulance, physicians declared her deceased, according to police.
It was Thursday morning and the investigation was still proceeding. The knifing came after other violent crimes against young people in New York City that didn’t seem connected. Mahki Brown, 16, was fatally murdered by a gunman outside a posh hotel in Soho just one day prior, according to authorities. According to officials, Brown’s demise came after the 17-year-old Emily Mizell was stabbed to death in The Bronx last week. According to police, a 15-year-old girl was taken into custody on suspicion of murder in Mizell’s death.