Murder of Tessa Majors
2019 CE.
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Tessa Majors was an eighteen-year-old student at Barnard College who was murdered near Morningside Park in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, on December 11, 2019. Majors was attacked and stabbed by three Black teenagers as part of a robbery, and was discovered collapsed and bleeding on a staircase exiting Morningside Park and transported to a nearby hospital, ultimately succumbing to the injuries. One of the suspects, a thirteen-year-old, was arrested the following day and charged with felony murder. Two months later, two fourteen-year-old suspects, Luchiano Lewis (born February 22, 2005) and Rashaun Weaver (born April 3, 2005), both residents of New York City, were also charged with murder. On June 3, 2020, the 13-year-old (since turned 14) pleaded guilty in family court to robbery in the first degree. On September 21, 2021, Lewis pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and first-degree robbery. In December 2021, Weaver pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, first-degree robbery, and second-degree robbery.
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