NEW YORK (PIX11) -- A call for metal detectors to be installed at all New York City Public Schools after four students were slashed or stabbed inside and outside schools in three boroughs on Tuesday.
"Whether people like it or not, there should be metal detectors in the schools. Metal detectors are a proven way of making schools safer than they are," Gregory Floyd, the president of Teamsters Local 237, which represents School Safety Agents, told PIX11 News.
Floyd said two of the three schools where there were slashings do not scan students for weapons.
In Queens, police said an 18-year-old was stabbed in the back and arm while outside Queens High School of Teaching on Commonwealth Boulevard.
In Manhattan, police said two students, ages 15 and 17, stabbed each other at the High School of Graphic Communication Arts on West 49th Street. One male was stabbed in the torso, and the other was slashed in the face.
Police said at one in the afternoon, at the Evander Childs Campus in the Bronx, a 15-year-old student was slashed by a 17-year-old student. A source told PIX11 News the teen used a scalpel to cut the other teen's neck in an incident that was gang-related. The 17-year-old was taken into custody.
We contacted the New York City Department of Education and Mayor Eric Adams' Office for a response to the demand for metal detectors but did not hear back.
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