Teen accused of Tessa Majors’ murder confessed to dad on recorded line
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New York Post ^
| Sept. 22, 2020 | Rebecca Rosenberg
The 15-year-old charged with fatally stabbing Barnard student Tessa Majors during a park mugging was caught on a wiretap confessing to his jailed dad, sources told The Post Tuesday — as it emerged that the youngster has been indicted in yet another vicious robbery. Before
he was arrested in the Dec. 11, 2019, slaying, Rashaun Weaver allegedly spilled his guts to his father, Clifford Weaver, in a conversation that was picked up on a recorded prison phone line at the Mohawk Correctional Facility, where the elder Weaver was being held on a parole violation.
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Teen involved in stabbing of Barnard student Tessa Majors sentenced to 18 months in custody
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| Jun 15, 2020 | Sonia Moghe
NEW YORK — A teenager involved in the fatal stabbing of Barnard student Tessa Majors in New York last December was sentenced to 18 months in the custody of the Administration for Children's Services on Monday.
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Young teenager pleads guilty in connection to Barnard student Tessa Majors' murder
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abcnews.go.com ^
| 6/3/2020 | Aaron Katersky and Christina Carrega
Tessa Majors was fatally stabbed in Morningside Park in December. A 14-year-old boy charged in connection with the stabbing death of Barnard College student Tessa Majors pleaded guilty to robbery charges Wednesday in family court. The
unnamed teenager pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery as a juvenile -- a felony. He will be sentenced by a judge on June 15 to a limited security facility for six to 18 months. "This resolution is in the best interest of the community and for a youth who has had no prior contact with the juvenile justice system and was not the main actor...
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Childish Logic: The New York Times argues against adult justice for Tessa Majors’s alleged killers.
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New York Post ^
| February 24, 2020 | Nicole Gelinas
Last December, Tessa Majors, an 18-year-old college student, was stabbed to death in Manhattan’s Morningside Park. Police have now apprehended three suspects, 14-year-olds Rashaun Weaver and Luchiano Lewis and 13-year-old Zyairr Davis. Weaver and Lewis face second-degree murder charges as adults, and potential life sentences; Davis faces family-court charges as a juvenile
because he is not alleged to have directly restrained or stabbed Majors. The New York Times has published a nearly full-page editorial arguing that no 14-year-old, not even an alleged killer, should be tried in adult court or face a prison sentence that extends beyond his majority. In...
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Luciano Lewis, 14, arrested in killing of Barnard student Tessa Majors
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NY Post ^
| 19 February 2010 | Rebecca Rosenberg, Larry Celona and Natalie Musumeci
The third and last teen suspect in the fatal stabbing of Barnard College student Tessa Majors has been arrested, law enforcement sources told The Post on Wednesday. Luciano Lewis, 14, surrendered to police with his lawyer Wednesday morning and is expected to be arraigned in Manhattan Supreme Court later Wednesday in connection
with the Dec. 11 killing of the 18-year-old, the sources said.
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Barnard student Tessa Majors' death leads to murder charge against 14-year-old boy
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NBC ^
| 2/15/20
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. 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. He is the second teen charged in the killing. A 13-year-old was arrested days after the incident and charged with second-degree murder, robbery and a weapons-related count. "Sadly, it cannot bring back this young woman, this student, this victim," New York City...
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NYPD probe into murder of Barnard freshman Tessa Majors, 18, suffers setback as criminal charges are DROPPED against second suspect, 14
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Daily Mail ^
| 12 15 2019 | Keith Griffith
Cops Saturday dropped charges against suspect, 14, in murder of Tessa Majors It's unclear why the charges were dropped or whether the boy is still a suspect A 13-year-old suspect remains held facing juvenile charge of felony murder If convicted he would likely be eligible for release at the age of 21
Tessa was stabbed to death during a mugging in Manhattan's Morningside Park Cops are thought to be seeking a third juvenile suspect in the murder SNIP
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Tessa Majors was looking to buy weed before her murder, police union president claims
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New York Post ^
| Dec 15, 2019 | By Tina Moore, Craig McCarthy and Joe Marino
Tragic 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 on Sunday. “What I am understanding is that [Majors] was in the park to buy marijuana,” Sergeants Benevolent Association
president Ed Mullins told radio host John Catsimatidis on his AM 970 show, The Cats Roundtable. Police sources confirmed to The Post that they are investigating that angle, based on claims from a college friend of Majors’. A friend of the victim claimed to detectives that the 18-year-old...
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The ‘Little Kids’ Suspected in (Barnard College student) Tessa Majors’ Murder
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The Daily Beast ^
| 12/14/2019 | Michael Daly
Five days before 18-year-old Barnard College student Tessa Majors was slashed to death in Morningside Park at the edge of campus, a younger teenage girl was chased into the 118 Deli one block further away. The
younger girl lost her footing as a boy who would prove to be 13 came in after her. “He kicked her on the floor,” the woman behind the counter would recall. “Situation like that, all I know is I got to call the cops. Once I see something like that, I’m calling the cops.” The counterwoman, who declined to give a reporter her name,...
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Tessa Majors murder: Suspect, 13, arrested in stabbing of Barnard student (NYC)
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NY Post ^
| December 13, 2019 | 8:29am | By Tina Moore and Amanda Woods
A 13-year-old boy has been arrested after confessing in the stabbing murder of Barnard College freshman Tessa Majors in Morningside Park, a high-ranking source confirmed to The Post on Friday. The teen had a knife on him when he was picked up Thursday night in the lobby of a building close to
the park, the source said. He was taken to the precinct on trespassing and weapons charges — and then confessed to the murder, telling investigators that he and two friends tried to rob Majors, 18, before stabbing her, the source added.
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Tessa Majors, Barnard Student, 18, Is Fatally Stabbed Near Campus: A freshman, she was killed during an armed robbery in Morningside Park.
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New York Times ^
| December 11, 2019 | Ed Shanahan and Matthew Sedacca
An 18-year-old Barnard freshman was fatally stabbed just after nightfall on Wednesday during a mugging in a park near the college’s Manhattan campus, the police and college officials said. In
a campuswide letter sent around 11 p.m., Sian Leah Beilock, Barnard’s president, identified the victim as Tessa Majors and said she had been killed in an armed robbery in Morningside Park. “Tessa was just beginning her journey at Barnard and in life,” Ms. Beilock wrote. “We mourn this devastating murder of an extraordinary young woman and member of our community.” Ms. Beilock said in the letter that she and Leslie...
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