The grieving mother of a slain 14-year-old boy said her son was relentlessly bullied before he was fatally stabbed outside a Queens McDonald’s on Valentine’s Day.
Julian Corniell had just asked his mother for money to buy a present for his new girlfriend when he was stabbed in the abdomen by a “large group” of youngsters outside the Sunnyside restaurant.
“He walked out of my house with his backpack and I thought that he was going to go to school. They called me in the afternoon that he didn’t go to school,” Julia Verona said.
“He was my only boy. He was only 14.”
The mother revealed that the teen had been constantly harassed by other boys to the point he was granted a safety transfer to another middle school.
“Last year, in January, he was beat up by 10 kids. He went to the hospital, then those kids were caught, then they released them because they were minors.”
When Julian started high school, he “saw some of the kids that hurt him.”
“He stopped going to school. Then I started working on a transfer.”
Witnesses said the group of teens chased Julian across the street from the McDonald’s at around 3:30 p.m. and took off after mortally injuring him.
“I don’t want to go home,” the distraught mother said. “I don’t want to find his bed without him there. I don’t even know what to do.”
