Mayor de Blasio and top Police Department officials defended limitations on the use of metal detectors in schools at a press conference Oct. 3, a day after reports surfaced that a second knife was found by a Custodian in the same classroom where two students were stabbed, one fatally, at a Bronx high school.
The Custodian found the weapon in the rear of that room Sept. 28, a day after Abel Cedeno, 18, allegedly stabbed Matthew McCree, 15, and Ariane Laboy, 16, in the chest with a three-inch switchblade during a history class at Urban Assembly School for Wildlife Conservation. Mr. McCree died from his injuries; the other teen is recovering from his wounds.
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