EVERETT, Wash. — Prosecutors have charged a 17-year-old from Tulalip and another from Marysville as adults in the stabbing of a 14-year-old boy.
It happened last week in Lions Park in Everett.
According to court documents obtained by KIRO 7, the teens are in rival gangs: the Southside Locos and the Norteños and there was a fight over a girl.
The documents state that the boys knew each other from Lakewood High School.
Before the stabbing, the boy had reportedly been talking with a girl on Instagram and Snapchat.
The night of Dec. 16, documents state she picked the boy up at Country Burger in Stanwood, and the two decided to go to the park to smoke some marijuana.
After they made this plan, the girl picked up her phone and started texting, according to court documents. The boy told detectives he believed she was telling people where they were headed. As they drove, the documents state the boy said he felt like the girl might be setting him up because she had “already set up one of his friends and attacked her.”
Around 12:35 a.m. on Dec. 17, the two got to the park. According to the court documents, when the boy got out of the car, the two teens grabbed him from behind and walked him through the soccer fields and into the woods. The girl then drove off.
The boy told detectives that the teens were wearing ski masks and had guns, but he immediately recognized them.
Court documents state the teens pistol-whipped the boy before pinning him to the ground and stabbing him multiple times.
Marysville boy carved an “N” on his chest, for Norteños, according to the charging documents.
The Tulalip teen reportedly told the boy “This is what you get for acting tough.”
The boy told detectives that the pair made him strip, then used his clothing to tie him to a tree and “left him to die.”
He reportedly waited for them to leave, and then untied himself and ran to the nearest home for help.
“I looked at the camera of my phone and somebody was crumbled up out here and saying, ‘I need help, I need help,’” the homeowner, who wished to remain anonymous, told KIRO 7.
The neighbor, who called 911, says the victim was covered in blood and having a hard time breathing.
“He was bleeding heavily from the chest and stomach, and he was naked,” she said.
The teen was rushed to the hospital for surgery.
Police arrested the Marysville teen on Dec. 18 at his home. According to the court documents, officers found a bloodied sweatshirt and boxer shorts in a garbage can outside.
Investigators arrested the Tulalip teen the same day.
Both teens are facing charges of first-degree assault, first-degree robbery, and first-degree kidnapping.
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