PARK SLOPE — The 20-year-old man arrested Wednesday for stabbing two people and biting one in front of the John Jay educational campus on Seventh Avenue was there to attend his girlfriend's graduation, police said.
Kevon Cameron, who lives in Flatbush, was expected to be arraigned on charges of assault, menacing and criminal possession of a weapon in connection to the melee that began shortly before 11:30 a.m. in which he stabbed a 19-year-old in the back and hand, bit the chest of a 17-year-old student and slashed the ear of that teen’s father, sources said.
All three victims were treated at Methodist and had minor injuries, according to police and Department of Education officials.
Police did not immediately say what sparked the fight on the corner of Seventh Avenue and Fourth Street, but said Cameron had been arrested nine times previously, most recently in January, when he was charged with robbery and criminal possession of stolen property, according to public records.
It was not clear what school the girl attended, but families and school staffers said that the Secondary School for Journalism — which has been plagued by low performance and leadership turnover— was the school hosting graduation on Wednesday.
Marc Williams, principal of the High School for Journalism said Wednesday, “We are still investigating the details of incident,” declining to comment further.
A group of sixth graders from another school in the building, Park Slope Collegiate, were just returning from a Prospect Park trip and receiving their report cards when the fight broke out right next to them.
When their teacher saw someone had a knife, he told the middle schoolers to run, so they fled up the block into the school’s parking lot.
“I started crying,” said one sixth grade girl. “And the guys [who were fighting] came in the parking lot. So we ran inside the yard into our school. I was hiding behind a tree. I was hyperventilating.”
Department of Education officials declined to provide further details, saying only that the NYPD responded immediately to the “serious incident.”
