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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...

One of the three teenagers the police say was involved in the stabbing death of an 18-year-old Barnard College student in Morningside Park pleaded guilty to robbery in Family Court on Wednesday.

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...

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...

The fatal mugging of Barnard College freshman Tessa Majors in Morningside Park last week — allegedly at the hands of three boys ages 13 and 14 — came as little surprise in a neighborhood already reeling from rising crime and roving bands of ­violent youths. The park was the most dangerous in the city for muggings in the first nine months of 2019, logging 11 robberies in that period, according to NYPD statistics. By comparison, there were 10 reported muggings in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park and nine in Claremont Park in The Bronx in that same period. Reports of violent crime...

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

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...

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,...

New York City police have arrested a 13-year-old male juvenile in the shocking stabbing death of a Barnard College student, sources told Fox 5 News Friday. Tessa Majors, an 18-year-old freshman, was discovered unconscious with “multiple stab wounds about the body” near a staircase in Manhattan’s Morningside Park just before 7 p.m. Wednesday, police said earlier this week. The president of the all-women school says she “was fatally injured during an armed robbery” attempt. A police source told Fox 5 News Friday that the teen confessed to stabbing Majors. The report, citing police, adds that as many as three people...

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.

An 18-year-old college student was stabbed to death on Wednesday afternoon in a New York City park, allegedly by a group of unidentified young men who mugged her then left her for dead. Tessa Majors, a freshman at Barnard College who was from Charlottesville, Virginia, was walking down a flight of steps into Morningside Park on West 116th Street on Wednesday when the young men approached her. According to police sources, they demanded money from her and stabbed her multiple times in the stomach before fleeing. She crawled to a nearby security guard booth but the guard was doing his...