Stab starts new yr. at B’klyn HS
A Brooklyn high school student was stabbed in the neck with a hair pick on his first day of class Wednesday, authorities said.
The 17-year-old was outside of Automotive High School on Bedford Ave. in Greenpoint about 8:45 a.m. when Travell Brown, also 17, allegedly attacked him during a fight in the courtyard.
Paramedics rushed the teen to Woodhull Hospital with the hair pick still stuck in his neck. He suffered minor injuries to hand, back, neck and head, authorities said.
Sources with knowledge of the case said the two teens have been warring since summer school.
Brown was arrested and charged with assault.
“Students and staff are safe and there were no serious injuries,” city Department of Education spokeswoman Miranda Barbot.
“We're providing the school with additional supports and will ensure appropriate followup action is taken, ” she said.
The arrest near Automotive High School was one of 10 incidents at city schools involving weapons Wednesday, according a spokesman for school safety agents union. No guns were involved. That's in contrast to the first day of school in 2017, when a 15-year-old boy was arrested after he brought a loaded weapon into the Brooklyn School for Career Development in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.