New York teenager died in Brooklyn while stabbing NYPD suspects with gang ties; latest outbreak of violence involving the city’s youth

Police said the teen died on Saturday from a wound he received when he was attacked by a group of teenagers in Brooklyn.

The murder was the latest in a string of youth violence in the city, including a Thursday night shooting that killed a 15-year-old Bronx boy.

Five teenagers chasing 17-year-old Nyheem Wright around 3:20 p.m. Friday caught up with him in the Rite Aid parking lot on Mermaid Avenue, near 30th Street in Coney Island.

There he was beaten and fatally stabbed, police said.

When the police arrived, they found that Nayhim had received one stab wound to the torso.

He was taken to the Maimonides Medical Center in critical condition, where he died from his injuries on Saturday afternoon, police said.

The attack took place in a parking lot in a shopping district across Mermaid Avenue from PS 329 The Surfside School, from which the students had been released about half an hour earlier.

Police believe the attack was linked to a gang, a police source said. As of Saturday, there had been no arrests and the investigation was ongoing.

Nyheem was a student at K728 Liberation Diploma Plus High School, about a mile from the scene, according to the New York City School Safety Coalition.

Police have blamed the youth violence on gangs and ridicule on social media.

Crime spiked in the first weeks of 2023 in Coney Island, according to the police department.

As of January 15, police at the 60th Precinct, which covers the area, counted 26 violent assaults, a 160% increase from the 10 violent assaults reported in the same period in 2022. Burglaries and grand thefts also increased.

But as of January 15, there was no shooting at the station.

With Kayla Bamberger