A 13-year-old girl was stabbed in the abdomen near Barclays Center, police say — and three teenaged boys who ran off are being sought in the bloody Brooklyn attack.
The assault occurred at 7:45 p.m. Sunday outside the Atlantic Ave. shopping center across from Barclays Center.
The victim, Kayla Carter, told ABC News she and her friends were leaving the Stop & Shop on Atlantic Avenue when three young men approached them.
“We didn’t know them, it all started out with them pointing and looking at us weird,” Carter told the outlet.
When the girls let the trio know they weren’t interested, the two groups got into a verbal dispute that quickly turned physical when one of the young men stabbed her in the left abdomen just above her pelvis.
Carter, who is about to start eighth grade, said she didn’t feel anything at first — until she saw blood coming through a hole in her skirt.
“He tried to stab my friend, missed her. I didn’t know he was going and I thought the knife was fake,” Carter recounted. “I thought he was still going to try to stab me, I just ran. I didn’t even look back to see if he was chasing me, I just ran.”
On Monday evening, police released photographs and video of three teen suspects, along with descriptions of what they were wearing at the time of the attack.
In the video, which appears to be footage from an MTA security camera, the teen suspects can be seen jumping the turnstiles at a subway station. It’s not clear if the video captured the images before or after the disturbing attack. One of the teens is wearing an AC/DC hoodie, another has on a light blue T-shirt, and a third is wearing a black sweater and has his hair in short dreads.
Carter told ABC the teen with dreads was the one who stabbed her.
Medics took the victim to Maimonides Medical Center in stable condition.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at (800) 577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, (888) 57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/, or on X @NYPDTips. All calls are strictly confidential.
