13-year-old girl speaks out after stabbing outside of Barclays Center | Exclusive
BROOKLYN, New York (WABC) -- A 13-year-old girl is speaking out exclusively with Eyewitness News after she was stabbed and wounded outside of the Barclays Center in Downtown Brooklyn.
The victim, Kayla Carter, was stabbed in the abdomen just above her pelvis on Sunday evening around 7:45 p.m.
In her exclusive interview Monday, she said was leaving the Stop and Shop on Atlantic Avenue near Barclays Center with friends when they were approached by three guys.
"We didn't know them, it all started out with them pointing and looking at us weird," Carter said.
When the girls showed no interest, the two groups got into a verbal dispute and it got heated.
The dispute escalated and Carter was stabbed in the left abdomen. She says she was stabbed by a teenager with dreads.
The rising eighth-grader says she did not 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 said. "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."
Carter was rushed to Maimonides Medical Center and is in stable condition.
The NYPD released images of the three teens wanted in the attack. All three are believed to be between the ages of 16 and 19.
One was last seen wearing a black headband, a light blue t-shirt and black pants, a second was last seen wearing a black AC/DC hoodie, black pants, and carrying a black book bag and the third was last seen wearing a black and gray jacket, a black shirt, and black pants.
All three suspects ran away southbound on Flatbush Avenue. No arrests have been made.
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