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9-Year-Old Boy Stabbed To Death In Harlem
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Jen Chung
Published Jan 2, 2010
Modified Jan 2, 2010
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Absolutely awful: The Daily News reports, "A 9-year-old New Jersey boy was stabbed to death in a Harlem housing project early Saturday while visiting relatives, police and family said. About 3:30 a.m., the child knocked on the door of his uncle's room in the Grant Houses and collapsed with a chest wound." The uncle told the News the boy, who had been visiting his grandfather for the New Year's weekend, told him, "Uncle, uncle, I've been stabbed." The child died at St. Luke's; no arrests have been made yet.
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