A Newburgh Free Academy student was slashed in the leg on a school bus on Monday, February 5. The student was transported to Montefiore St. Luke’s Cornwall and treated for non-life threatening injuries.

City of Newburgh Chief of Staff Mike Neppl said police responded to the area of 70 Dubois at approximately 2:40 p.m.

“Officers located a 17-year-old student of Newburgh Free Academy, who had sustained a superficial laceration on their lower leg. The victim was tended to by hospital staff for a non-life threatening injury. City of Newburgh Detectives are investigating this incident.”

According to a letter from Superintendent of Schools Jackielyn Manning Campbell, the incident took place in the afternoon when two individuals boarded a school bus transporting students from the high school.

They engaged in an altercation with the student on the bus, whom they may have previously known. They attempted to pull the student off the bus and it was then that the student was slashed in the lower leg by one of the assailants.

The letter continued that the bus driver took quick action and drove the student to the hospital and local law enforcement was notified of the incident.

“Although this incident did not occur at our school location, there will be an additional presence of law enforcement at our high school campus tomorrow morning, out of an abundance of caution,” she continued.
Anyone with information on the incident is asked to contact city detectives at 845-569-7509.