New Rochelle Teen Sentenced In High School Stabbing

NEW ROCHELLE, NY — A New Rochelle High School teen was sentenced Thursday for stabbing another student inside the school. Westchester County District Attorney Anthony A. Scarpino Jr. said Bryan Stamps, 16, of New Rochelle, was sentenced as a juvenile offender to one to three years in state prison for first-degree assault, a felony.

On Jan. 18, 2018, Stamps stabbed another student inside the school building. The student was taken to a hospital trauma unit where he underwent surgery and was treated for serious injuries.

Stamps fled from the state, and after close to four months, the FBI located him in Alabama where he was taken into custody May 14, 2018.

He waived extradition to New York two days later.

Westchester County Police Warrants Squad picked him up in Alabama and returned him to Westchester County.

In court Thursday, Assistant District Attorney Kerrie Williams read an impact statement from the victim's grandmother listing the trauma Stamps had imposed on her grandson, family and the other students and teachers at New Rochelle High School.

In her letter, the grandmother also said, regarding the adults who helped Stamps flee the law and stay in Alabama, "Shame on you." She also said that "Bryan does not seem to understand the seriousness of his action."

Stamps was indicted by a grand jury April 16, 2018, and pleaded guilty to the charge Oct. 4, 2018.

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Photo caption: Bryan Stamps. Photo credit: Westchester County District Attorney's Office.