Crime & Safety
2 Teenagers Slashed In Upper West Side McDonald's, Arrest Made: NYPD
A 14-year-old and a 16-year-old were slashed Tuesday morning within the McDonald's at West 71st Street and Broadway, police said.
UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — A person was arrested for assault after two teenage boys were slashed in an Upper West Side McDonald's on Tuesday morning, police said.
NYPD officers responded to the fast-food joint at West 71st Street and Broadway just after 8:20 a.m. to find a 14-year-old with a stab wound to his back and a slash above his eye, and a 16-year-old with a cut to his left hand, police said.
Emergency services took the two teens to Cornell Hospital in stable condition, police said.
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Later on Tuesday, Jovani Bowen, 24, was arrested in connection to the attack and charged with assault, menacing, and criminal possession of a weapon.
NYPD did not say what instigated the slashings.
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