One student was repeatedly punched and stomped in the head and another pistol-whipped outside a Staten Island high school Monday — weeks after another brawl at the same school, sources told The Post.
Video of the confrontation shows one Susan Wagner High School student being stomped while curled in the fetal position while another lies on his back as an assailant hovers over him with what appears to be a gun in his right hand.
Sources said the assailant struck the prone teen with the firearm at some point.
The Department of Education said the two attackers were not affiliated with the school.
“Ensuring our students can safely travel to and from school is the top priority of both the DOE and NYPD, and this deeply disturbing incident involving two individuals from outside the school community is unacceptable,” said spokesperson Nathaniel Styer. “We are working closely with the NYPD to identify the perpetrators and we are providing the victims with support.”
Sources said parents at the Staten Island school are furious about a lack of timely and forthright communication from administrators about the incident.
DOE sources said the school initially sent out a robocall informing parents of an unspecified incident early Monday evening. They noted the presence of a gun in a subsequent robocall at 8:20 Tuesday morning.
Meanwhile, sources said the school was placed on lockdown yet again Tuesday afternoon after someone reported seeing a teen brandishing a firearm outside the school. Law enforcement sources said three teens were taken into custody and that a gun was recovered.
And in yet another videotaped brawl recorded Monday inside the school, several students were seen beating each other in a gym area as staffers tried to intervene.
School safety agents have been cautioning parents about a staffing dips that have left them shorthanded in challenging circumstances.
City Councilman Joe Borelli (R-Staten Island) said Tuesday that troubling scenes in and near schools should not come as a surprise.
“The decisions to erode school safety agent staffing levels and the broader decoupling from the broader NYPD has been a disaster from the get-go,” he said.
