Bronx Teen Who Stabbed Classmates Guilty Of Manslaughter: Reports

THE BRONX, NY — A Bronx teenager was found guilty Monday of killing one classmate and maiming another in a gruesome 2017 stabbing at their high school, news reports say.

A judge reportedly found Abel Cedeno, 19, guilty of manslaughter, assault and criminal possession of a weapon despite arguing that his classroom attack on two other boys was self-defense. He faces up to 25 years in prison, according to the New York Daily News and PIX11.

Cedeno stabbed 15-year-old Matthew McCree to death and wounded another student, Ariane LaBoy, during a history class at the Urban Assembly School for Wildlife Conservation in September 2017.

Cedeno came out as gay after he was arrested and maintained that he had been bullied with slurs for years, according to The New York Times. "They called me a b----h. They called me a f----t and gay," he testified Thursday, according to the Daily News.

But the case's lead prosecutor said that Cedeno, who was 18 at the time of the attack, brought a knife to school "ready to go" and that the violence had "no justification," the Times reported.

The killing — reportedly the first in a school in more than 20 years — prompted the Department of Education to train teachers on de-escalating dangerous situations and review its protocol for reporting bullying.