Crime & Safety
15-Year-Old Girl Faces Murder Charge In Queens Teen's Stabbing: NYPD
The unnamed girl, 15, is accused of fatally stabbing 17-year-old Sara Rivera in the neck outside a subway station Wednesday, police said.
NEW YORK CITY — A 15-year-old girl faces a murder charge in the shocking stabbing death of another teen outside a Queens subway station, police said.
The slashing remained under investigation Friday afternoon, nearly two days after officers found Sara Rivera, 17, slashed in the neck near the 46th Street-Bliss Street stop in Sunnyside, authorities said.
An NYPD spokesperson told Patch that details about what led to the stabbing were still unclear.
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The accuser stabber, 15, had been arrested after the Wednesday night attack and charged the next day with second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon, police said.
She attended the same high school as Rivera, the New York Daily News first reported.
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