Girl, nine, charged with stabbing 11-year-old friend in fight over ball

A NINE-YEAR-OLD girl fatally stabbed an 11-year-old girl in the chest with a steak knife during a fight over a ball, authorities in New York said.

The nine-year-old, whose name wasn’t released, was charged with manslaughter.

Police spokesman Paul J Browne told The New York Times that he was “unaware of anyone younger implicated in such an act in New York City”.