A third teenager was arrested Tuesday in connection with the fatal Valentine’s Day stabbing of a 14-year-old boy, who was chased and viciously attacked by a mob of teens outside a Queens McDonald’s, according to police.
The 17-year-old boy was hit with a slew of charges, including murder, manslaughter and gang assault in the Feb. 14 slaying of Julian Corniell, who was attacked outside the fast-food spot near 38th St. and Queens Blvd. in Sunnyside, police said.
The arrest follows the earlier arrest of two other teens, ages 14 and 16. Because of their ages, the suspects’ names have not been released.
The younger teen was arrested at the scene and charged with gang assault, while the older boy, nabbed last Thursday, is also facing murder charges. Julian’s aunt told the Daily News after the older teen’s arrest, “Being young is a copout.”
“We can say that boys will be boys till we’re blue in the face, but doesn’t that mean fists?” Sheila Corniell, 40, told The News earlier this week. “That doesn’t mean weapons.”
Julian was chased out of the McDonald’s and across the street, where he was attacked by the mob of 15 to 20 kids and stabbed in the abdomen, police said. He was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell in Manhattan, but he could not be saved.
He was a freshman at Hillcrest High School in Jamaica and lived with his family in South Jamaica.
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