‘This boy is traumatized;’ Mother wants answers after 15-year-old son stabbed at local park

GREENE COUNTY — A Greene County mother is asking for the people who stabbed her son to be held accountable.

As reported on News Center 7 at 5, Kenna Arrington said it all started Friday night when her son was at a cookout at Shawnee Park in Xenia.

“This is a 15-year-old boy who was stabbed in his back twice and nobody talking about it, why is that?” Arrington said.

Around 11 p.m. that night her fiancé went to pick up her son and got a phone call that her son had been stabbed multiple times.

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Her fiancé then took her son to Greene Memorial Hospital.

“He had stab wounds in his back, one almost hit his spine, and the other almost poked his kidney,” Arrington said. “They said that if it would have moved over half an inch he would have bled out.”

She shared the argument she said happened before the stabbing.

“There was a group of white boys, a group of black boys. The white boys were calling them (racial slurs), that’s what started it,” Arrington said.

While at the hospital, she said police did try to talk to her son about what happened at the park.

She said her son has not made a victim statement with the police.

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She said she worries the boys who allegedly attacked her son will retaliate if he gives a statement to police.

Xenia police confirmed to News Center 7 that they have asked for a victim’s statement several times.

“The boy is traumatized this is ridiculous. He’s the victim and they’re not treating him like the victim,” Arrington said. “These kids need to be arrested.”

Police said detectives have looked into leads and talked to witnesses with little success.

They noted they will continue to work with the prosecutor’s office.

Anyone with information about the stabbing is asked to call Xenia police at (937) 372-9901.

News Center 7 will continue to follow this story.

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