NEW YORK, NY – Two 16-year-old boys were brutally beaten and assaulted early Friday morning inside a stairwell of an apartment building in the Bronx.
According to the New York City Police Department, a group of men pushed the boys down the stairs at around 5:30 am inside the 306 East 171st Street building. The department said five men pushed the two teens and then began to punch and kick them while they were injured on the ground at the bottom of the steps. The boys were also slashed by their attackers who robbed them of their belongings before fleeing.