NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- A 15-year-old boy was charged on Sunday for fatally stabbing a 14-year-old boy during a fight in a Manhattan subway station the day before.
The victim, Ethan Reyes of Yonkers, was stabbed in the stomach during a fight with the other teenager at the 137th Street–City College station in Hamilton Heights around 3 p.m., authorities said.
Emergency responders rushed him to Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The suspect also suffered stab wounds and is currently recovering at New York Presbyterian Hospital.
Authorities believe the boys knew each other, and that the stabbing was an escalation of an ongoing conflict between them.
Mayor Eric Adams said he'd like to see conflict resolution programs that give young people the skills to de-escalate conflict.
"A simple dispute elevates to a stabbing, an assault," Adams told 1010 WINS. "We must number one have alternative programs that we are putting in place for children, number two we need to deal with some of the mental health issues that we are facing and thirdly we have to really deal with the conflict resolution to see that violence is not the way."
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