Double stabbing at Queens high school leaves two students seriously wounded: cops

Police were at the scene as students dismissed from Queens’ Martin Van Buren High School following a stabbing there on Feb. 1, 2024.

Photo by Lloyd Mitchell

Two students at a Queens high school were stabbed at their campus on Thursday afternoon, briefly forcing classes to go into lockdown.

Law enforcement sources said the violence erupted at about 1:30 p.m. on Feb. 1 inside Martin Van Buren High School, located at 230-17 Hillside Ave. in Bellerose.

According to authorities, the two students were attacked by an unidentified suspect inside a stairwell. 

Officers from the 105th Precinct, in responding to reports of the assault, found one student with a stab wound to the stomach, and another knifed in the shoulder.

EMS rushed both victims to a local hospital in stable condition, police sources said. The ages and genders of the two victims were not immediately disclosed.

Meanwhile, police took the alleged assailant into custody. That individual’s identity has not yet been released, and charges are pending the results of the ongoing investigation.

Van Buren students and classes were briefly placed on lockdown shortly after the stabbing occurred, authorities said. The lockdown, however, was brief, and students were seen being safely dismissed from the campus at about 2:30 p.m.

amNewYork Metro reached out to the city’s Department of Education for comment on the incident, and is awaiting a response.

With reporting by Lloyd Mitchell