One teenager was fatally stabbed and another wounded in a bloody confrontation near City Hall Park on Thursday, police said.
The brawl broke out around 7 p.m. involving the pair — one 17, the other 18 — outside 17 John St. Both were migrants, a source said.
“A group of three men approached the teens and asked if they spoke English,” a police source said. “A fight ensued and both teens were stabbed.”
Both teens were rushed to Bellevue Hospital. The 17-year-old died from wounds to the chest and head; the 18-year-old was stabbed in the left arm and was in stable condition, a source said.
“I was coming back from class, and I heard the kid’s friend screaming,” a Pace University student who did not want to be identified told the Daily News. “The kid was holding his neck and bleeding heavily from his mouth. I never saw so much blood in my life. This was like a horror movie.”
The student added that the wounded teen “collapsed” and “tried to get up, then he collapsed again. It’s something I never expected to see in real life.”
Another witness who did not want to be identified said he saw medics “doing chest compressions on the guy in the ambulance.”
“They walked the other [teen] right by me. The two of them … were covered in blood.”
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