A 17-year-old boy was stabbed to death as he was walking home from school in Queens on Friday, cops said.

Josue Arturo was just a block away from his home in Woodhaven when a group of kids attacked him near 76th St. and 86th Ave. around 3:43 p.m., police and law enforcement sources said.

The teen made a run for it, but his attackers gave chase before stabbing him in the neck, sources said.

Medics rushed the youth to Jamaica Hospital in critical condition, but he could not be saved, cops said.

A 17-year-old was stabbed in the neck and killed by a group of teens chasing him outside of 85-57 76th Street in Woodhaven, Queens on Jan. 9, 2026. (Kerry Burke/NYDN)

Video obtained by the Daily News shows one teen, who is holding something in his right hand, chasing another teen down 76th St. and striking him with it several times, including around the head and chest and in the neck. The two boys then appear to talk to each other, before the attacker, dressed in black and wearing a mask and hood, walks off.

Another video then shows the teen victim slump down onto the sidewalk on 76th St.

Patricia Ammirati was inside her home on 76th St. when she heard the fighting outside and walked to her window in time to witness the attack.

“They were running. He was chasing him and then they started fighting,” she said. “It looked like he was punching him, but he had something in his hand. He was all masked up. He had it up good. You couldn’t see his face.

“He was bleeding. He walked up to the second house and he sat down. Then he slumped over. The boy that stabbed him crossed (the street) with another kid in a red sweat jacket and they walked away like it was nothing.”

Christopher Garcia, 29, was out for a walk when he spotted a good Samaritan attempting to revive the teen, who appeared lifeless on the sidewalk.

“I saw him on his back,” Garcia, a ride-share driver, told The News. “He was splayed out on the sidewalk. There was blood splashed all over his pants. I didn’t see any life on him. He was totally stiff. No twitch, nothing.

“People started doing CPR. He had already passed on even before the ambulance got here. There was no life.”

A backpack surrounded by first responders’ latex gloves and other medical waste was spotted at the crime scene Friday night.

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