Student slashed with box cutter in fight at Freeport High School; teen charged with assault

Nassau County police said they are investigating a fight between two students Wednesday afternoon at Freeport High School that left one of the teens with wounds from a box cutter and the other in custody.

Police said the two male students got into a fight at 12:50 p.m. on campus.

"During the altercation, a 15-year-old male juvenile did use a boxcutter knife to cause lacerations to a 14-year-old male juvenile," the police said in a news release late Wednesday. 

The injured boy suffered three puncture wounds to his neck and abdomen and was taken to Nassau University Medical Center, Freeport Mayor Robert Kennedy said. 

The 15-year-old accused in the slashing was arrested Wednesday and now faces felony assault charges and a misdemeanor weapons count, police said. He is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday in First District Court in Hempstead.

Freeport and Nassau County police responded to the school. The district briefly activated a lockdown hold at the time of the fight, but soon after all other activities resumed, according to a message to the school's community from Freeport Superintendent Kishore Kuncham. He said the district was taking "appropriate action."

"This afternoon, an isolated incident occurred at Freeport High School involving two students resulting in one student requiring medical attention," he said. "The safety of all students and staff continues to be the district’s highest priority."

By John Asbury

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John Asbury is a breaking news and general assignment reporter. He has been with Newsday since 2014 and previously worked at The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, California.