NEW YORK -- "Help me, I'm being robbed."Those were the words spoken by Tessa Majors, 18, in the last moments of her life, as she bled to death during a robbery near Barnard College, police said. Majors, a student at the college, was found lying face down just outside Morningside Park in
Those were the words spoken by Tessa Majors, 18, in the last moments of her life, as she bled to death during a robbery near Barnard College, police said. Majors, a student at the college, was found lying face down just outside Morningside Park in December and had multiple stab wounds, including one to her heart, police said.
Majors’ killing shocked the city, given that violent crime had fallen in recent years, although residents of the neighborhood had been concerned about the safety of the area around Morningside Park. Story continuesThe DNA recovered from one of Tessa Majors’ fingernail clippings matches the DNA profile of Weaver, according to a criminal complaint.Early in the investigation, police identified Weaver as the person they believed stabbed Majors after she bit his hand during a violent struggle with the three assailants. In an audio recording of a conversation obtained by police and detailed in the complaint, Weaver said that he stabbed Majors with a knife because “she was hanging on to her phone.
A: Police seemed to make a huge break in the case when the 13-year-old in the group implicated Weaver during his interview with investigators. But officers could not find Weaver to question him. In the case of teenagers who are under 16, prosecutors have discretion to try them as adults in some cases of violent crimes.
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