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14-year-old fatally stabbed near Sunnyside McDonald’s, suspect in custody: NYPD

McDonald's where deadly Queens stabbing occurred

A teenager was fatally stabbed near the McDonald’s on Queens Boulevard and 38th Street in Sunnyside, Queens on Feb. 14, 2025.Photo via Google Maps

Feb 14, 2025 By Czarinna Andres and Rob Pozarycki

Police have charged a 14-year-old boy in a deadly stabbing on Friday afternoon that claimed another teenager’s life.

Police said the fatal stabbing occurred around 3:30 p.m. on Feb. 14 at the McDonald’s restaurant located at 38th Street and Queens Boulevard in Sunnyside.

The teenager — Julian Corniell, 14, of 159th Street in South Jamaica, and reportedly a student of Hillcrest High School — got into a fight with several other teens at the fast-food restaurant. The altercation may have started inside the McDonald’s and spilled onto the street, police sources said.

According to police, Corniell was stabbed multiple times in the abdomen and was rushed to Weill Cornell Medical Center in critical condition, where he was later declared dead.

Officers from the 108th Precinct responded to the scene. A knife was found near the scene, though authorities have not confirmed if it is the murder weapon.

Council Member Julie Won, whose office is located near the scene, issued a statement extending condolences to the victim’s family.

“Condolences to the family of the 14-year-old from Hillcrest High School who was stabbed on 38th Street and Queens Boulevard near our district office,” Won’s statement read. “As of this afternoon, the local precinct has two suspects in custody. Investigations into this situation are ongoing. My office will continue to follow up and provide updates.”

On Saturday, the NYPD announced that a suspect in the case, a 14-year-old boy whose name was withheld due to his age, had been charged with first-degree gang assault. Additional charges may be pending the results of the ongoing investigation.

*Updated on Feb. 15 at 9:40 a.m.

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Downtown Julie Won sends her condolences to the family of the victim, but no mention of the garbage and overall decline in Sunnyside/LIC or outrage at the violence. We have 23 migrant shelters in the 11101 zip code, not once has she stood up to defend our neighborhood. The NYPD detectives from the 114th pct were just at my door asking for images from my security cameras. We have thugs, gang members and run amok teens, many of them migrants teens who never had any form of formal education dumped in already failing middle schools and Queens Vocational HS. Violence out of Queens Voc was a daily occurrence, fights, teens with sharpen screw drivers like ice picks and steel cables with the tips turned upward, like grapples thrown into my front garden when the cops would roll up. La Quinta Inn was a cesspool during the past 3 summers with shirtless men getting sidewalk haircuts, sidewalk barbecuing partying, drinking, smoking weed and lounging on beach chairs and while their barefoot kids run around past midnight and the parents blast the salsa and bachata music into the wee hours, with the spillover of the street walkers prostitutes from Roosevelt Ave moving further this way servicing their John’s in the McDonalds parking lot. All of the sudden these people have disappeared, could it be the Trump effect or the just the cold Weather? We will see this coming summer how all this plays out.

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