Medical examiner: Slain Barnard student was stabbed in torso

NEW YORK — A Barnard College freshman who used to be fatally stabbed closing week in a park shut to the college’s Novel York City campus died from wounds to the torso, town’s medical examiner acknowledged Monday.

Police acknowledged as many as three youths confronted 18-300 and sixty five days-outmoded Tessa Majors as she walked in Long island’s Morningside Park objective sooner than 7 p.m. on Dec. 11.

A 13-300 and sixty five days-outmoded boy used to be arrested Friday on charges including prison execute.

Police acknowledged he admitted he used to be with the neighborhood that confronted Majors, but acknowledged he did now not stab her. The boy is being held in a juvenile detention facility and is due serve in family court docket Tuesday.

At a listening to Friday, Detective Vincent Signoretti testified that the teen acknowledged he watched his friend nick Majors with a knife. The teen’s authorized expert, Hannah Kaplan of the Apt Abet Society, acknowledged police didn’t contain evidence beyond the boy’s assertion, saying he used to be “merely blow their private horns when this took set aside.”

Within the meantime, a police union respectable is below hearth for his comments on a radio point out Sunday speculating about why Majors used to be in the park.

Sergeants Benevolent Affiliation president Ed Mullins used to be denounced by Majors’ family after telling 970 AM’s “The Cats Roundtable” it used to be his working out she used to be there to make a decision marijuana.

Majors’ family known as the remarks “deeply spoiled, as they intentionally or unintentionally narrate blame onto Tess, a young girl, for her dangle execute.”

“We would demand Mr. Mullins now to now not find in such irresponsible public speculation, objective as the NYPD asked our family now to now not observation as it conducts the investigation,” Majors’ family acknowledged in a assertion Monday.

De Blasio tweeted his response to Mullins: “We don’t disgrace victims on this city.”

Majors, from Charlottesville, Virginia, done in a rock band in Novel York and had told an editor from a newspaper internship in excessive college that she deliberate to take journalism lessons in school.

“Our family would take to thank the hundreds of strangers who contain taken the time to console us, portion in our anguish, and enable us to know we’re now not on my own right through this terrible time,” Majors’ family acknowledged in the assertion Monday. “Tess set now not need been surprised by this beautiful reminder of our shared humanity.”

Juveniles convicted in Novel York dispute’s family courts could possibly well well furthermore objective furthermore be sent to detention facilities until they’re 21 in so a lot of cases, and are now and again released after that.

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