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Teen Stabbed to Death Near Gravesend Home

By Jess Wisloski | June 9, 2013 5:19pm
 A 17-year-old was found stabbed to death just steps from his Brooklyn home on June 9, 2013.
A 17-year-old was found stabbed to death just steps from his Brooklyn home on June 9, 2013.
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GRAVESEND — A teenager was stabbed to death early Sunday morning right near his Brooklyn home, police said.

Kenny Chen, 17, was found unconscious with a stab wound in his torso on the corner of Benson Avenue and 26th Avenue, by police resonding to a 911 call. He was rushed to Coney Island Hospital but declared dead on arrival.

Chen lived just steps away on 26th Avenue, and was reportedly found with a large quantity of marijuana on him, police sources told the NY Daily News

No arrests had been made by Sunday afternoon, police said.