15-Year-Old New Haven Boy Stabbed During Fight: Police

NEW HAVEN, CT — A 15-year-old New Haven boy was stabbed during an altercation Wednesday afternoon near Sherman and Whalley avenues.

The victim suffered a non-life threatening injury and was treated at the Pediatric Emergency Department at Yale New Haven Hospital, which contacted police about the incident.

The victim's mother told detectives that her son had gotten into a fight with four young men when one of the attackers pulled out a pocketknife and stabbed him in his back.

Police found the boy’s bloodied shirt on Whalley Avenue after being dispatched to collect the evidence and process the scene.

Detectives "were having little luck persuading the victim to talk," according to police, and are hoping surveillance footage of the incident will shed light on the case.

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