NEW YORK – Police are looking for five people in connection with the brutal robbery of two teenagers in the Bronx.
Investigators said two 16-year-old boys were thrown down a flight of stairs before being beaten, stabbed and robbed of their cellphones and money.
It happened around 5:30 a.m. Saturday inside a building on East 171st Street near College Avenue in the Claremont section.
The teenagers were treated at Montefiore Medical Center and are expected to be OK.
Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIP (8477)or for Spanish, 1-888-57-TRACK (74782). You can also send a tip through their website or via DM on Twitter, @NYPDTip. All calls are kept confidential.
The CBS New York team
