Posted on 06/08/2020 7:39:02 PM PDT by bitt
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 in the murder," said James E. Johnson, the city's corporation counsel, a division that prosecutes juvenile offenders, in a statement.
The juvenile was 13 years old when he and two other teenagers, Rashaun Weaver and Luchiano Lewis, were accused in the fatal stabbing of Majors during a mugging gone wrong last December in Morningside Park, steps from Barnard College.
Majors, 18, was stabbed several times before she staggered up a flight of stairs and uttered, "Help me, I'm being robbed," authorities said.
The then-13-year-old did not physically stab Majors, according to authorities, but he confessed to providing the murder weapon to Weaver.
"After that, we saw Tessa Majors walking on the stairs inside the park. Rashaun went up to her and said something to her and Tessa yelled for help," the boy said in statements to police. "Rashaun used the knife that I had handed to him to stab Tessa and I saw feathers coming out of her coat. Then I saw Rashaun take a plastic bag out of her pocket."
The guilty plea was reached after a pretrial hearing determined that the teenager's lawful statements to the police could be used against him at trial.
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snip...”The other two teens, Weaver and Lewis, who were 14 at the time of the alleged attack, have been charged as adults in Majors’ death.
Their cases are still pending in Manhattan Criminal Court.”
“limited security facility for six to 18 months.”
I’m sure he will choose brain surgeon as his career when he gets out.
The wording used of “ a mugging gone wrong” begs the question of when, exactly, does a mugging go right?!
Oh, it is in new York City. They have nothing to worry about.Unless they are Proud Boys.
DiBlasio will get the boy released, then give him free tickets to all Yankee home games.
Maybe his daughter can be a Big Sister.
Did they claim to be liberators liberating her funds?
This was a mostly peaceful mugging.
I caught that too.
I’ll bet they left with the loot, so the paper has it wrong.
This way a mugging gone right.
Barnard College is the 17th most liberal college in the U.S. Hmmmmmm
“...when, exactly, does a mugging go right?!”
was the theft under $950? it’s OK!
When they don’t get caught?
Brb, gonna loot a target and burn an autozone ... is what someone might say if one little detail was changed
Amazing. You can MURDER someone...and remain anonymous. Who came up with THAT bullshit?
I think we can take that as.....I got their stuff & they’re still alive. A win win for everyone.
And in 5 years Netflix will do an investigation documentary proving he’s innocent.
Who will wash his feet?
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