Two young teen boys were injured in separate violent incidents in Queens on Thursday with both male victims suffering gnarly hand injuries, according to the NYPD.
In Elmhurst, a 14-year-old was stabbed multiple times — including once in the mitt — in an after-school altercation outside of a restaurant near Broadway and Queens Boulevard on what happened to be his birthday.
“I saw two kids running across the street. One keeps chasing him and the next thing — I seen them on the corner — he kept stabbing him and he ran,” restaurant worker and witness Nick Zarmai told The Post. “He was bleeding, I brought him in.”
“It was his birthday. The guy who got stabbed, it was his birthday, too.”
Zarmai described seeing a boy in a school uniform execute three stabbing motions, one over the top and two to the side — with the birthday boy suffering an injury to his hand while running away from his attacker.
Security footage from the eatery showed the boy holding out his left hand, which was dripping blood across the floor.
Other young people crowded into the restaurant and around their wounded peer as the 14-year-old was led to an ambulance, according to the video.
“Somebody said it was over a girl,” Zarmai speculated.
The victim was taken to Harlem Hospital in stable condition.
One person is in custody in relation to the incident, but no formal arrests or charges have been made, according to the NYPD.
Elsewhere in Queens, a 13-year-old boy suffered a gunshot wound to the hand.
The teen was hit in the right hand outside the Ocean Bay Apartments in Rockaway, according to the NYPD.
He was taken in stable condition to Long Island Jewish Medical Center.
No arrests have been made and an investigation is ongoing, cops said.