Jersey City police said that two teens were stabbed at the Newport Centre Mall

Jersey City police said that two teens were stabbed at the Newport Centre Mall Saturday night during a melee that involved at leat 18 persons and was reported to be a gang fight.Responding to a disturbance on the first floor of the mall around 8:53 p.m., police and mall security found a 15-year-old boy who had been stabbed in the stomach, reports said.Another juvenile, of unknown age, ran from the mall after being stabbed and went to the Jersey City Fire Department station on Marin Boulevard.
Firefighters said that he had stab wounds in the shoulder.Additional police units responded to the area and rounded up some of the teens.One of the victims told police that he was with three 15-year-old friends when around 15 males approached them. One youth wearing a ski mask and with his forearm in a cast asked if he was affiliated with a certain street gang and then stabbed him, reports said.

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John Delgado, Elizabeth, and Christian Alicea,arrested and charged with aggravated assault, making terroristic threats and possession of a weapon ,

John Delgado, 19, from East Grand Street in Elizabeth, and Christian Alicea, 21, of Hutton Street in Jersey City, and a 16-year-old teenager from Kennedy Boulevard in Jersey City were arrested and charged with aggravated assault, making terroristic threats and possession of a weapon, police said.
Three people were arrested Saturday night after someone tried to settle a feud over an ex-girlfriend with a handgun, police reports said. Police responded to a report of a street fight with a handgun at Hutton Street and Cambridge Avenue at around 5:10 p.m., reports said. When they arrived, they saw two males a block away on Central Avenue, police said. One of them, a 17-year-old resident of Willow Avenue in Hoboken, told police he and his cousin had been attacked by Alicea, Delgado and the 16-year-old. During the fight, the teen said, Alicea pulled a handgun but was forced to drop it after the teen's cousin punched him in the face. Police recovered a 9 mm Magnum from the intersection. The Hoboken teenager said the trouble began a day earlier, when he was jumped by Alicea. He said they'd been feuding over an ex-girlfriend.

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