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Teenager charged after stabbing - Blacktown

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Where: Second Avenue, Blacktown, the street the release names · See the street on the map

Teenager charged after stabbing - Blacktown
Blacktown, New South Wales · NSW Police

The release

A teenage boy is due to face court following an alleged stabbing in Sydney’s west last week.

About 5pm on Thursday 22 October 2026, emergency services were called to Second Avenue, Blacktown, following reports a teenage boy had been stabbed.

Officers attached to Blacktown Police Area Command were told a 17-year-old boy was at a carpark nearby before he was allegedly assaulted by four people and stabbed by one of them.

The boy was treated by NSW Ambulance paramedics before being taken to a hospital in a serious condition. He has since been released.

A crime scene was established, and detectives commenced an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident.

Following inquiries, about 11.20am today (Wednesday 28 October 2026), police arrested a 15-year-old boy in Seven Hills.

He was taken to Blacktown Police Station where he was charged with wound person with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, and affray.

He has been refused bail to appear in s children’s court tomorrow (Thursday 29 October 2026).

— NSW Police
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Crime in the Blacktown council area

Blacktown is a council area in New South Wales with about 449,385 residents. It has a Crime Score 44 out of 100 (moderate), 216th of 362 councils nationally.

The score blends national percentile ranks for each published offence category with fixed severity weights; here it is driven most by assault (54th percentile), robbery (86th percentile), homicide (47th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 55.

Violent
1,322 per 100k
Property
2,500 per 100k
Break-ins
220 per 100k
Theft
1,124 per 100k

See the full Blacktown crime profile

2016-17: 1,308 per 100,0002017-18: 1,297 per 100,0002018-19: 1,322 per 100,0002019-20: 1,322 per 100,0002020-21: 1,365 per 100,0002021-22: 1,067 per 100,0002022-23: 1,173 per 100,0002023-24: 1,227 per 100,0002024-25: 1,251 per 100,0002025-26: 1,322 per 100,0002016-172021-222025-26
Recorded violent offences per 100,000 residents in Blacktown, 2016-17 to 2025-26 — little changed over the period. Source: recorded crime published for New South Wales.

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