A 15-year-old boy was rushed to a hospital in Queens after an afternoon stabbing at a McDonald's restaurant, police said Monday.
The fast food joint off 21st Street in Astoria became a crime scene around 4 p.m. when police responded to reports of a stabbing.
Officers found the victim with a stab wound in the buttocks, the NYPD said. Two male teen suspects wearing ski masks had already fled the restaurant. Police said that a group of people took the victim's cellphone before stabbing him.
The teen victim was rushed to a hospital; his condition was not immediately known.
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