A 17-year-old boy was killed and another teen wounded Thursday night during a vicious stabbing in Lower Manhattan that was committed after the victims told their attackers they didn’t speak English, according to police and sources.
The two teens were outside 17 John Street in the Financial District around 7:39 p.m. when they were approached by three male suspects, the NYPD and sources said.
The trio asked the teens if they could speak English – and when the victims said they couldn’t, the suspects launched their attack, the sources said.
Yeremi Colino, 17, was stabbed in the chest and an 18-year-old man was knifed in the left arm.
Both victims were rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where Colino succumbed to his injuries, police said. The other victim remains in stable condition.
The duo were stabbed with a knife, according to law enforcement sources.
No arrests have been made.
Colino’s address, according to cops, is listed as Midtown, Manhattan’s Roosevelt Hotel, which houses migrants.
Witnesses were left horrified by the brutal slaying that happened on the sidewalk outside Kuu, a popular ramen restaurant.
“I was walking back from class and I saw a bunch of people screaming. I kinda look up and it looks like this kid is holding his neck and his friends are screaming,” one witness, who requested anonymity, told The Post.
“It was just a bunch of blood coming out of his mouth and maybe his neck as well. I’ve never seen so much blood in my life. The kid collapsed. He looked like he tried to get back up again. He collapsed again. It was like straight out of a horror movie.”
Javier Pau was enjoying a bowl of spicy pork ramen inside the eatery when he looked up and saw one of the teen victims covered in blood and two other people in jackets running away.
He said the stabbing left him sick to his stomach.
“I got light headed. I went to the bathroom” Pau told The Post.
“That was my first time seeing that. It sucked. I lost my appetite.”
Police currently have the area cordoned off as investigators probe the scene.
The investigation remains ongoing.