{"id":588462,"date":"2026-02-14T02:54:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T02:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/588462\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T02:54:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T02:54:19","slug":"boy-16-arrested-at-nyc-high-school-after-menacing-fellow-student-with-loaded-gun-during-fight-cops-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/588462\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 16, arrested at NYC high school after menacing fellow student with loaded gun during fight: cops, sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 16-year-old boy was arrested at a Queens high school Thursday after he allegedly menaced a fellow student with a loaded gun during a fight, cops and sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The teen flashed the gun during a clash with another youth around 1:50 p.m. inside Martin Van Buren High School on Hillside Avenue near 232nd Street in Bellrose Manor, according to the NYPD and law enforcement sources.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When the school administration found out, the building was placed on lock down \u2013 but the fleet-footed teen had already bolted, the sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38487480\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/30-17-hillside-ave-121227601.jpg\" alt=\"Martin Van Buren High School, 230-17 Hillside Ave.\" class=\"wp-image-38487480\"  \/>The teen was fighting with another student inside Martin Van Buren High School when he flashed the loaded gun, cops and sources said.  Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>When school safety agents found out, they called 911 and officers from the 105th Precinct soon caught up with the fleeing teen and recovered his weapon, according to the sources.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested and charged with criminal possession of a weapon, menacing and obstructing governmental administration, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38487481\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/230-17-hillside-ave-121226673.jpg\" alt=\"Martin Van Buren, 230-17 Hillside Ave\" class=\"wp-image-38487481\"  \/>The armed teen fled from the school, but was quickly arrested by responding officers, sources said.  Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>The school does not have scanners in place to detect weapons, according to the sources.<\/p>\n<p>The bust comes about a month after three city teens <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/14\/us-news\/nyc-student-busted-with-gun-at-school-after-fight-the-third-teen-found-armed-in-the-classroom-this-week\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">were caught with guns<\/a> in city schools in one week \u2013 two of them in a single day, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 16-year-old boy was arrested at a Queens high school Thursday after he allegedly menaced a fellow student&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":588463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,11307,42423,10858,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,4413,3060,3981,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-588462","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arrests","10":"tag-guns","11":"tag-high-schools","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-queens","20":"tag-schools","21":"tag-teens","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-us-news","28":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116066731066888917","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}