Officers responded to 17 John St. around 7:40 p.m. for reports of a stabbing.
When officers arrived, they found two teenage victims with stab wounds.
A 17-year-old boy, identified as Yeremi Colino, was stabbed in the chest and taken to NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital, where he died.
The second victim, an 18-year-old man, was stabbed in the left arm and taken to the same hospital, where he's expected to recover.
A Pace student who was leaving the dining hall walked right into the crime scene right after it happened, seeing a bloody pair of pliers and a blood covered sharp stick on the ground.
"All the cops started coming down John Street from Broadway, There was a lot commotion, they started yelling at us to get out of the way, and I guess somebody got stabbed with either a pliers or a wooden stick. It was pretty chaotic. Cops were pushing people out of the way, trying to secure the scene and there was a lot of blood, there was a big trail like cross different parts of John Street, student Mason Garrity said.
There are no arrests, and the investigation is ongoing.
This is the fourth murder to take place in the 1st Precinct so far this year, while no homicides took place in the same precinct throughout all of 2023
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