Guns Recovered From Schools In Queens And Staten Island
Loaded firearms were recovered from high schools in Queens and Staten Island, while a separate stabbing outside a Bronx school left a teen wounded.
On Monday morning (September 14, 2026), at Curtis High School in Staten Island, an 18-year-old high school student, Samuel Owusu, was caught with a loaded gun in his bag by school safety agents and was subsequently taken into police custody.
According to reports, the student was fighting with another student on Hamilton Avenue in the St. George neighborhood around 10:20 AM when school safety agents intervened and broke up the fight. It was during this incident that they found the loaded gun in the backpack. The school reportedly does not have metal detectors.
The statement released by the Department of Education read, “Weapons have no place in our schools or our city. The incident was quickly and safely addressed by our School Safety Agents, and no students or staff were injured. The gun was safely recovered after a search was conducted of the student’s bookbag. NYPD was called immediately upon discovery of the firearm.”
The authorities revealed that the teen did not pull out the gun and no one was harmed during the incident. However, Owusu was charged with multiple gun possession charges and unlawful possession of cannabis. (More details on this incident can be found on Univision).
The allegations have not been proven in court.
Second Firearm Detected at Queens High School
There was another similar incident at a high school in Queens on Monday (September 14, 2026), where another gun was found in a bag. Police revealed that the weapon was discovered when the bag went through a scanner. Contrary to earlier ambiguities, reports from Roosevelt Island Daily News confirm that the recovered firearm was indeed loaded.
Student Stabbed Outside Bronx Campus
In another case, a 17-year-old student was stabbed outside Taft Educational Campus in the Bronx around 9:30 AM, while he was accompanied by his mother to register at a school. According to Gothamist, the teen was approached by two suspects; one punched him in the face and another stabbed him. While the victim was taken to a hospital and is recovering, the suspects remained at large as of Sept. 17, 2026.
