15-Year-Old Girl In Custody Over Teen's Queens Stabbing Death: Report

QUEENS, NY — A 15-year-old girl is in custody after another teen was fatally stabbed in the neck outside a Queens subway station, according to police and reports.

Police identified Sara Rivera, 17, as the victim in the late Wednesday knifing — the latest in a recent spate of violence that claimed the lives or maimed teens, authorities said.

A person of interest had been taken into custody, police said shortly after the stabbing.

The New York Daily News later reported that the person in custody was a 15-year-old girl. An NYPD spokesperson could not confirm that to a Patch reporter.

A 911 call about 9:25 p.m. brought NYPD officers outside the 46th Street-Bliss Street stop in Sunnyside, where they found the girl with a stab wound in her neck, officials said.

Medics rushed her to Elmhurst Hospital, where doctors pronounced her dead, police said.

The investigation was ongoing as of Thursday morning.

The knifing followed other apparently unrelated acts of violence against New York City youths.

Just a day before, a gunman fatally shot Mahki Brown, 16, outside a luxury Soho hotel, police said.

Brown's death followed the stabbing death of Emily Mizell, 17, in The Bronx last week, authorities said. Police arrested a 15-year-old girl on a murder charge in Mizell's death, police said.