Teen, 14, taken into custody after stabbing 12-year-old girl in Bronx school over TikTok spat

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Just one day after a teenage boy was stabbed in the hallway of his Brooklyn high school, a 12-year-old girl was knifed by a fellow student in their Bronx classroom on Wednesday morning, according to police and sources.

At approximately 9.40 am, during a fight that may have started over a TikTok dispute, the preteen student was slashed in the right leg by the suspected attacker, 14, who was subsequently taken into custody, according to police sources.

The incident occurred at Soundview's James M Kieran Junior High School.

Student witness recounts horror

When the violence started in the sixth-grade classroom, the frantic teacher yelled, "Someone go get help!" according to witness Allison Sanchez, New York Post reported.

"He went to stop the fight and we all went outside into the hall," accompanied by her mother, the eleven-year-old told The New York Post outside the Soundview school. "It was so fast. After, they took us to another classroom and we had to sit there and wait.”

Sanchez remembered that an eighth-grader who had gotten into a fight with another girl was brought into her class and told to "sit here and calm down," which sparked the attack.

Another eighth-grade girl entered the room a short while later, "and sat down at that table and they just started talking," according to Sanchez. “Then they started fighting and they pushed the table around. One had a knife.”

Sanchez's mother, Nely Cerano, fights are a daily occurrence at the junior high, which is a part of the Bronx Urban Community STEAM Magnet Schools, and has 530 students. “There are no school safety officers in the school. Not usually… There’s one or two, but they’re only at the front desk,” she further added.

Health updates of victim

The victim's condition was listed as stable after EMS took her to Jacobi Medical Center. According to law enforcement sources, investigators were looking into whether the violence was caused by a dispute that erupted on TikTok.

Police said that a knife was found after the attack, but the public school does not have a system in place for scanning weapons.

By early afternoon, about two dozen parents had gathered around the front door of the school, located on Morrison Avenue near Bruckner Boulevard, to pick up their children, and several NYPD School Safety vans were parked along the school's sidewalk.

Shortly before 2.30 pm, students were dismissed as usual. Following the stabbing, school safety officers were observed dismantling magnetometers and X-ray machines that were intended to check children for weapons.