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NYPD arrests 13-year-old suspect in knifing death of Barnard College student Tessa Majors, two other suspects sought: sources

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Cops have arrested a 13-year-old boy they say played a role in the killing of Barnard College freshman Tessa Majors during a robbery in Morningside Heights, sources said Friday.

The suspect was charged after he was brought in for questioning. Two other teens involved in the robbery are still being sought, sources said.

Further information on the name and charges were not immediately available.

Cops said Majors was stabbed to death Wednesday evening after descending the steps of Morningside Park in Harlem near the Columbia University campus. Barnard is a women’s college affiliated with Columbia, and its students use Columbia’s campus and facilities.

Majors was jogging down a set of steps in the park on W. 116th St. near Morningside Drive shortly before 7 p.m. when at least two men confronted her and one of them stabbed her with a knife, said investigators who reviewed surveillance video.

Teenage suspect arrested in murder of Barnard College student Tessa Majors

MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS, Manhattan (WABC) -- The NYPD has arrested one juvenile in connection with the stabbing death of Barnard freshman Tessa Majors, three law enforcement sources told ABC News.

Detectives believe there may be as many as three individuals linked to the crime.

More information is expected later Friday.

This is a breaking news update. Earlier story below.

The hunt continues for the killers who stabbed to death an 18-year-old college student on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

And now Tessa Majors' classmates at Barnard College are calling for added security.

Majors was wrapping up her first semester at the school as she cut through Morningside Park just before 8 p.m. Wednesday when police say a group of teens tried to rob her and take her phone.

There was a struggle, and she was stabbed multiple times. She tried to get to help at a security booth but it was too late.

She was taken to St. Luke's Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

There have been no arrests.

Police questioned several teens Thursday, one day after the deadly stabbing.

Each of the teens - minors who police say were with their parents during questioning - was later released.

This is a breaking news update. Earlier story below.

The hunt continues for the killers who stabbed to death an 18-year-old college student on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

And now Tessa Majors' classmates at Barnard College are calling for added security.

Majors was wrapping up her first semester at the school as she cut through Morningside Park just before 8 p.m. Wednesday when police say a group of teens tried to rob her and take her phone.

There was a struggle, and she was stabbed multiple times. She tried to get to help at a security booth but it was too late.

She was taken to St. Luke's Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

There have been no arrests.

Police questioned several teens Thursday, one day after the deadly stabbing.

Each of the teens - minors who police say were with their parents during questioning - was later released.

Morningside Park remains closed, with crime scene tape or a police officer at every entrance.

A memorial with flowers now stands just feet away from where Majors was found.

It is one of two. The other is located on the Barnard campus, where that community held an emotional vigil Thursday night.

Majors' parents are said to be traveling from their home in Charlottesville, Virginia.

The school insists a guard is always in that booth, but students are calling more security after Tessa's death.

"There should be 24/7 security guards," said Columbia University student Marwa Khairy. "Personally when I go through the park I almost never see a security guard."

"Talking to a lot of my friends the past couple of weeks how it's getting dark so early, you know," said another Columbia student, Maya Sampleton. "And so I think that's something the school needs to take responsibility for."

Investigators were still combing the park for evidence on Thursday.

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13-year-old boy arrested in murder of Barnard College student Tessa Majors

The NYPD reportedly picked up the teen Thursday and were holding him for criminal trespass when they say he made statements implicating himself in the murder.
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The 14-year-old suspected killer of Barnard College freshman Tessa Majors jumped out of a car while on his way to meet with cops on Monday, sparking a manhunt in Harlem, police sources told The Post.
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The middle-schooler and an adult were headed to meet with cops on Monday, when the kid bolted out of the car, a high-ranking source told The Post.

The adult notified authorities, who took to the area to track the teen, sources said.

The fresh-faced fugitive is among three suspects cops have identified in the fatal stabbing of Majors, 18, on Dec. 11 in Morningside Park.
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The third suspect, 14, was also arrested on Friday, but released on Saturday as cops continued to build their case, sources said.

The suspect currently on the run is believed to be the one who wielded the knife, sources have said.
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Tessa Majors' suspected killer, 14, jumps from car, sparking manhunt

The 14-year-old suspected killer of Barnard College freshman Tessa Majors jumped out of a car while on his way to meet with cops on Monday, sparking a manhunt in Harlem, police sources told The Post.
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The attorney for a 13-year-old boy accused of taking part in the murder of Barnard College student Tessa Majors said Tuesday that video that police have produced as a key piece of evidence does not show her client committing a crime.

Calling what happened to Majors a "terrible tragedy," Legal Aid lawyer Hannah Kaplan said during a probable cause hearing in Manhattan Family Court in New York that the video from a security booth in Morningside Park does not implicate the teenager.

"The evidence here is the opposite," Kaplan said. "The only testimony connecting my client to anything related to Miss Majors' death and alleged robbery is that at some point my client picked up a knife and handed it to someone. That is refuted by the description of the surveillance video."
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Acevedo also told the court that the teen insisted during his interrogation that he did not know that his friends were planning to rob Majors.

But Assistant Corporation Counsel Rachel Glantz, acting as prosecutor, told the court that the suspect implicated himself when he admitted to detectives that he and two other teens were in the park to rob somebody.
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Assistant Corporation Counsel Rachel Glantz, acting as prosecutor, told the court that the suspect implicated himself when he admitted to detectives that he and two other teens were in the park to rob somebody.

"He described how they followed a white male but for whatever reason they decided not to rob him," Glantz said. "Then he told detectives that he later picked up a knife and handed it to another individual. It is reasonable to infer that when the knife was picked up that it would be used in the course of a robbery."

Glantz then urged Judge Carol Goldstein to deny Kaplan's request for the teen be released into the custody of his aunt and uncle, who were in the courtroom.

Goldstein said the suspect was a "threat to public safety" and ordered him to be remanded.
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Video of Tessa Majors' last moments does not implicate 13-year-old stabbing suspect, lawyer says

A Manhattan Family Court judge ordered the suspect to be held without bail during a hearing Tuesday.
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A Connecticut man was arrested for threatening to kill black people in Harlem in retaliation for the murder of Barnard College freshman Tessa Majors, state police said.

Trevor Spring, 31, of Stonington, Conn. was charged Friday with second-degree threatening, a misdemeanor, according to Connecticut State Police.

He confessed to posting the threat on Reddit under the name Soup_For_Breakfast during a Tuesday lunch break at work, according to the arrest warrant affidavit.

Tessa Majors, 18, was stabbed in Morningside Park on Dec. 19. A 13-year-old has been charged in her death. Two other teens could also be charged.

A Columbia University security guard found Majors staggering out of the park after she was stabbed. She was rushed to nearby Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital, but could not be saved.

"I do believe that’s black kids murdered her though,” Spring posted on Reddit, according to his arrest warrant. “That’s the real story. Why don’t you pay attention to that. A black kid 13/14 year old stabbed a white gurl to death for nothing.

“Time to exterminate the real problem. Now he was freed by family/lawyer and let loose in HARLEM!" Spring wrote, according to the affidavit. "I’m going to search for him myself tonight. Armed and ready to fire. Then the parents are next.”

The NYPD’s Ethnically Motivated Extremism Unit discovered the online threat after a tipster called Crime Stoppers, then called Connecticut State Police, the affidavit said.

Spring was arrested Thursday night at his mother’s North Stonington home, where cops found him sleeping in a downstairs bedroom.
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Kid looks like thug trash. At no point in this shitheads life has he or will he EVER have even the most minimal potential to be of worthwhile v alue to society. Lock the filth in a cage till he dies.

Of cousre this is bleeding heart scumbag New York, so theyll take hisage into account, decide at 14 you somehow dont know it's wrong to rob and stab someone to death, and give him 10-15 years tops. Fuckin sick.
 
Nell said:
And? Does she deserve to die for want omg to buy some marijuana? Jesus. Talk about blaming the victim.
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Sheesh. Where did anyone blame the victim just by mentioning she may have been looking to buy weed at night? If true, it is a fact, not a blame. And it would be incautious for a woman alone to buy weed at night.
If it was a young man there would be no kneejerk reaction about blaming the victim. Double standard.
 
It's not about victim blaming. His point was that NYC is not enforcing the current laws and that led to why she was in the park in the first place.

I still want to point out what I see about this whole story is white privilage. I a 14yr old girl with dark skin was stabbed to death in Baltimore while trying to buy weed in a bad section of town you'd never hear about it anywhere.
 
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Very incautious if true.
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Tessa Majors was looking to buy weed before her murder, police union president claims

Barnard College freshman Tessa Majors was allegedly in Morningside Park to buy marijuana when she was fatally stabbed by a group of teenage robbers, the head of the NYPD sergeants’ union claimed Su…
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I dont understand why the police would release such info, yet alone why someone such as the fucking PRESIDENT of their union would see it fit to publically state this.

What's the point here, that she shouldn't have been out trying to buy drugs, that if cops or specifically law makers had done a better job cleaning the streets of drugs she would have known to not even bother trying? Surely he's not suggesting they legalize it, law enforcement groups tend to passionately oppose that in any sense for some reason.
 
The mother of one of the suspects in the fatal stabbing of Barnard College student Tessa Majors was arrested for stabbing a woman in a fight 13 years ago when her son was just 16 months old.

Police sources and neighbors identified the mother who was charged with assault, criminal possession of a weapon and harassment after the incident at her Jamaica, Queens home.

'Katima Minton pulled a knife and lunged at the victim, whose identity was withheld, after they started fighting,' the New York Post quoted from their story in August 2006.

The victim was treated at a New York hospital and was later released, the Post reported.
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Mother of Tessa Majors suspect was arrested for stabbing 13 years ago

Katima Minton, 35, the mother of one of the suspects in the fatal stabbing of Barnard College student Tessa Majors was arrested for stabbing a woman in New York in 2006.
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A 14-year-old boy was arrested and charged in the murder of Barnard College student Tessa Majors, who was killed during an armed robbery in a New York City park in December.
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He was charged with two counts of second-degree murder, one count of first-degree robbery and three counts of second-degree robbery, District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. added.
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14-year-old boy charged with murder in stabbing death of Barnard College student Tessa Majors

Majors, 18, was at Morningside Park in New York City on Dec. 11 when three teenagers tried to rob her. She was stabbed repeatedly during a struggle.
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A teen murder suspect in the slaying of Barnard College student Tessa Majors is expected to plead guilty Wednesday for his involvement in her botched mugging death, according to an official.

Zyairr Davis, 14, has admitted to helping Luchiano Lewis, 15, and Rashaun Weaver, 15, rob the 18-year-old college freshman in Morningside Park in December 2019, but has denied being the one who stabbed her.

Lewis allegedly put Majors in “a bear hug or headlock” during the robbery, while Weaver allegedly stabbed her with such fury that feathers flew from her winter coat, authorities have alleged.

The pair were arrested in February some two months after Davis.

A hearing is scheduled to be held before Family Court Judge Carol Goldstein at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Manhattan, where Davis plans to make an admission of guilt, New York courts spokesman Lucian Chalfen confirmed.

Davis was initially charged with murder, but it was not immediately clear Tuesday what he would be pleading to.
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Tessa Majors murder suspect, 13, expected to plead guilty: report

A teen murder suspect in the slaying of Barnard College student Tessa Majors is expected to plead guilty Wednesday for his involvement in her botched mugging death, according to an official.
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Slain Barnard College freshman Tessa Majors’ parents blasted the teen involved in her murder for his “complete lack of remorse” in a statement read Monday as he was sentenced to 18 months in juvenile detention.

Assistant Corporation Counsel Rachel Glantz read the heartbreaking letter shortly before Judge Carol Goldstein handed down the term — the maximum under the law — to 14-year-old Zyairr Davis for his role in the Dec. 11 slaying during a botched robbery in Morningside Park.

“[We] dropped her off at Barnard College in New York City to begin her freshman year of college. One hundred days later, [we] brought her home to Virginia in an urn,” wrote Inman and Christy Majors, of Charlottesville, Virginia, who were not in the courtroom.

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 health crisis, the lawyers, the judge and Davis appeared by video monitor in Manhattan Family Court. No family members from either side were present — just a handful of reporters. Davis, wearing a green T-shirt, wore a blank expression.

The grieving parents said Majors, an aspiring journalist and accomplished bass player, was “talented, kind, and a beloved daughter, sister, granddaughter.” They said that their grief at her sudden loss was compounded by “the incredibly violent nature of her death, which has been described in grisly detail” in Davis’ videotaped confession.

Inman and Christy Majors ripped Davis for his “complete lack of remorse or contrition.”

They criticized the language used in Davis’ June 3rd plea deal for avoiding the word murder and the defense team for downplaying their client’s role. “Some might wonder if Tess Majors was involved in an accident,” according to the statement. “Tess Majors did not die in an accident. Tess Majors was murdered. Plain and simple, and no amount of semantic gymnastics changes that fact.” Inman Major is a novelist and English professor at James Madison University.
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Tessa Majors’ parents blast one of her assailants for his ‘lack of remorse’

Slain Barnard College freshman Tessa Majors’ parents blasted the teen involved in her murder for his “complete lack of remorse” in a statement read Monday as he was sentenced to 18 months in juveni…
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A 16-year-old boy pleaded guilty to murder on Tuesday in the 2019 killing of Tessa Majors, an 18-year-old student at Barnard College who was stabbed to death in a New York City park near the school.

The boy, Luchiano Lewis, was charged as an adult despite being 14 at the time of the killing. He pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and first-degree robbery, a spokesperson for the Manhattan District Attorney's Office tells PEOPLE.

Majors was stabbed multiple times during a botched robbery inside Morningside Park, which is near the Barnard and Columbia University campuses in Manhattan.

In his allocution, Lewis admitted to being a part of a group of three boys that robbed people after school, but said he didn't attack Majors himself and claimed he didn't realize she'd been stabbed, according to a summary of his statement provided by the DA's office.

Another suspect in the case, Rashaun Weaver, is also charged with second-degree murder and robbery and has pleaded not guilty.

A third boy, who was 13 at the time of the slaying, pleaded guilty to robbery and was sentenced to 18 months in a juvenile facility. (
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N.Y.C. Teen Pleads Guilty to Murder of Barnard Student Tessa Majors

Tessa Majors, an 18-year-old student at Barnard College, was murdered during a botched robbery in 2019
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