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Cops Arrest 4 Teens for Murder of Murray Bergtraum Student

By Aidan Gardiner | October 9, 2013 9:14am
 Four boys were arrested Tuesday in the fatal stabbing of Kenny Chen, 17, who died in June, cops said.
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BROOKLYN — Police arrested four teens Tuesday in connection to the fatal stabbing of a Lower Manhattan high school student in June, police said.

Kenny Chen, 17, of Brooklyn, was reportedly lured from his home on June 9, stabbed in the torso and left to die in a Bensonhurst alley, the New York Post reported.

The Murray Bergtraum High School student was picked up from Benson and 26th avenues about 3:30 a.m. June 9 and rushed to Coney Island Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, cops said.

Peter Sedeno, Daquan Jackson, Dayshawn Young and Daine Daley, all 17, were arrested Tuesday after a long investigation, police said Wednesday morning.

Sedeno, of Woodside, was expected to be charged with murder, police said.

All four also faced charges of gang assault, cops said.

The victim's sister, Betty Chen, previously said she had felt anxious when she noticed a police car in front of the family's home the morning of the killing.

"I just had this awful feeling," she said. "It had to be my brother.

"It was the worst feeling in the world to come home to."

"He was a big brother to everyone," said Susan Liu, 16, who knew Chen in middle school. "[He] had everyone's back."