Teen to be sentenced for robbery in fatal stabbing of college student

Tessa Majors, 18, modified into stabbed to death on Dec. 11 shut to Columbia College.

June 15, 2020, 1: 40 PM

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A teen who pleaded guilty to theft in the fatal stabbing of Barnard Faculty student Tessa Majors is establish of residing to be sentenced on Monday.

The teen, now 14, modified into charged as a juvenile, as he modified into 13 on the time of the murder in December 2019.

He’s anticipated to be sentenced to now not lower than six months to a most of 18 months in a restricted-security facility. He’ll obtain credit ranking for the time served since his arrest.

Majors, 18, modified into stabbed to death on Dec. 11 in higher Ny’s Morningside Park, actual off the campus of Columbia College, as three teenagers tried to make a selection her.

Ny District Prison skilled Cy Vance acknowledged Majors’ final phrases had been “Abet me! I’m being robbed.”

The alternative two teenage boys arrested, Rashaun Weaver and Luchiano Lewis, had been both 14 on the time and had been charged as adults.

Weaver is accused of fatally stabbing Majors as Lewis allegedly held her in a headlock.

Their trials on murder and theft prices are pending. Both contain pleaded now not guilty.

Lewis’ licensed skilled declined to comment to ABC Data on Monday. Weaver’s licensed skilled may presumably well now not straight be reached for comment.


ABC News


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