Posted on 12/12/2019 5:58:33 AM PST by karpov
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 Grinage, the dean of the college, had spoken with Ms. Majors’s parents, who were on their way to New York. She also urged “anyone in need” to take advantage of the college’s counseling services.
The official police account of the crime offered few details. About 5:30 p.m., officers with the New York Police Department responded to a report that a woman had been assaulted near West 116th Street and Morningside Drive, the police said.
When they arrived, the officers found an unconscious woman who had been stabbed multiple times. She was taken to Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, the police said.
No one had been arrested and the investigation was continuing early Thursday, the police said.
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Ms. Johnson, a Columbia student, said she had participated in an effort to help clean up the park and improve its reputation as dangerous. She said Ms. Majors’s murder would affect students’ perception of the park.
“This is going to re-demonize the image,” she said.
Major crime in New York City was down about 1 percent this year through Dec. 1 compared with the same period last year, but murder was up about 8 percent
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She looks smart and determined. Maybe she’ll do something useful like demand concealed carry for Barnard students and include firearms training in freshman orientation.
The Big Apple...world’s greatest city.
“There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.”
I knew about “bad neighbohoods” when I was a little kid.
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Exactly right.
I like the location of the upper westside, but hate the projects. We've recently been staying in Madison sq park zone the past few trips. No projects and major re-development every single block (maybe even bldg).
Four of his 'students' rewarded him for his heroic efforts in redressing white crimes against humanity. They followed him home, and then tortured him to reveal his ATM passcode. Afterward, he died of his injuries.
It's gotta be genetic. By BIL and Gorsuch were frat brothers at CU. They and their buddies didn't have problems; they were smart enough to stay out of trouble. One is a rich dude in San Diego, the other a SC justice.
Thanks, I expected as much. Explains it all.
There are places in Memphis decent citizens won’t go in the daylight. Those who live there own illegal guns. Orange Mound is just 1.
I didn’t. I didn’t live near any.
Exactly, you lived in that shithole. Lots of people don’t live near any bad neighborhood.
I never lived in a bad neighborhood, but my father taught me well.
It was 5:30 PM! and so just after sunset , but not like college students dont need to be out when libraries and bookstores close. She was close enough to crawl to a Columbia University security booth,
The big lesson for anyone is dont walk alone...always with a buddy.
Also she still had her phone, so this wasn’t just “ robbery”
Stabbed in the face, stomach, armpit
This was a rage attack by feral men on a privileged white female student
....Race and economic class
>>>She also urged “anyone in need” to take advantage of the college’s counseling services<<<
How many NRA Firearm Instructors do they have on Staff?
This will be another Central Park Five case. Bank on that.
Are the Amish on the loose again?
It’s dark in NYC at 5:30 at this time of year. I guess she felt immune some how. Very sad.
Do you think everyone else had the same experience?
Yes. I think everyone is exactly like me.
Earlier this year at Barnard (giving guards doing their job a hard time over “racism”):
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