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The ongoing spike in teen violence in the Big Apple showed no signs of slowing on Monday, with at least two more young people attacked in the five boroughs overnight.
A 16-year-old boy was stabbed at a Bronx subway station shortly after 11:30 p.m. Sunday, hours after a 15-year-old was beaten and stabbed in Brooklyn, police sources said — even as The Post reported on the disturbing trend among teenagers violence ravaging the city.
“The young criminals are the most violent. The gang members know they’re not going to jail,” said Queens Councilman Robert Holden, a member of the council’s Public Safety Committee. “They should be treated like adults. The state legislature and governor are asleep at the switch.
“It’s going to get worse before it gets better.”
In the most recent incident, the young victim was getting off the 5 train at the Pelham Parkway subway station at 11:35 p.m. when he made eye contact with another straphanger — enough to tag out the attacker, who punched him in the arm and boarded the train. the sources said.
A 15-year-old boy was shot and wounded in a Bronx subway station Saturday evening, one of the latest examples of the youth violence plaguing the city. KYLE MAZZA/Shutterstock
The injured teen, who was “uncooperative” with police, was treated at Jacobi Hospital Medical Center in the Bronx for non-life-threatening injuries while his attacker remained on the run.
Shortly after midnight on Sunday, another teen was attacked while taking out the trash at the Coney Island Houses on Surf Avenue in Brooklyn, the sources said.
The 15-year-old was approached by an unknown man who punched and stabbed him in the abdomen before walking away — at which point the victim walked into Coney Island Hospital for treatment, according to sources.
Police have been pursuing several suspects after the shooting of a 15-year-old boy in a Bronx subway station last weekend. Willem Molenaar
Police sources said the teenage victim has six previous arrests as his attacker remains at large.
The incidents come as The Post reported on the disturbing rise in teen violence, with lax state laws putting police officers in handcuffs as more young people have become victims and suspects of crimes in recent years.
Critics cite the Raise the Age law, which raised the age of criminal responsibility to 18, filling the city’s two juvenile facilities with older and more violent residents. Before the law, suspects aged 16 and over were automatically charged in adult court with violent crimes.
“Children as young as 9 are recruited by gangs. It just has to stop,” said Queens Councilmember JoAnn Ariola, who serves on the Public Safety Committee. “The city is under siege by some kind of Fagin gang that is terrorizing our city.
“The governor and legislature made a mistake, public safety is at risk,” she said. “At this time, these defendants will go to Family Court and be released.”
Juvenile facilities such as Crossroads Juvenile Center in Brooklyn are overcrowded with violent suspects following the passage of the state’s “Raise the Age” law. GN Miller/NY Postal staff photog
Among the troubling arrests highlighted by The Post were a 14-year-old who was arrested nearly 20 times in less than two years, and a 12-year-old with six arrests — below state law results.
The younger suspect was last arrested on Nov. 9 after police spotted him riding a moped with a gun — a weapon later traced to two other attempted assault cases in the Big Apple, sources said.
According to Michael Lipetri, chief of the NYPD’s Crime Control Strategies Division, 12% of gun attacks this year involve suspects under the age of 18.
NYPD Chief of Crime Control Strategies Michael Lipetri said 12% of gun suspects are under the age of 18, an increase in recent years. Paul Martinka
Lipetri said the department estimates that a quarter of youth arrested with a firearm will be involved in a gun-related crime — whether as a suspect, witness or victim.
In a recent incident, a The 15-year-old boy was shot and injured at a 4 train station at 167th Street and River Avenue in the Bronx shortly after 10 p.m. Saturday, police said.
Sources said the violence unfolded after police spotted a group of people wanted for an earlier shooting and followed them to the station – only to hear the shots before they reached them.
Police chased the suspects down the trail and arrested two of them, including alleged gunman David Ayenengoye, 20, who is now charged with attempted murder for wounding the teenager.
“Since these laws do not stop young people from committing crimes, the laws only serve to make them better at crime,” said a law enforcement source. “They quickly grow into violent adult criminals and then the community really suffers.”