Arrest made after XBox stabbing

YONKERS - Two Leake and Watts Children's Home students were stabbed Wednesday afternoon in a dispute over a stolen $400 Microsoft XBox, Yonkers police said yesterday.

Police arrested Lavon Davis, 18, a student at the home, and charged him with second-degree burglary, a felony, in the theft of the XBox, Yonkers police Lt. Diane Hessler said.

But, Hessler said, police were still trying to determine who stabbed a 17-year-old boy three times, once in the abdomen and twice in the chest during the donnybrook at Fay Field shortly after 2 p.m. Wednesday.

"The investigation is still ongoing," Hessler said.

Another 16-year-old student was treated at St. Joseph's Medical Center for superficial cuts to the face and hands.

Yonkers Police Capt. Frank Intervallo, commander of the Third Precinct, said the dispute was apparently about the stolen game.

Intervallo said the fight started when a coach took about 50 students to Fay Field for gym class. During the class, Intervallo said, several students began to fight about the stolen XBox.

The game was stolen from the dormitory room of one of the students, police said.

Police were called to Fay Field on a report of 50 people fighting shortly after 2 p.m. Wednesday.

Most of the students were not involved in the fight, police said.

Police arrived and found the 17-year-old wounded on the ground. Police officers stabilized his wounds until Empress Ambulance arrived and took him to Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx.

Police investigating the stabbing stopped and detained three people, including Davis, walking into the north east entrance of the 463 Hawthorne Ave. school shortly after the fight.

Two of the students had blood on their clothing, police said.

Davis was later arrested and the two other allowed to return to the school after questioning.

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