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A 13-year-old boy will be charged in the murder of Tessa Majors,
a freshman at Barnard College in Manhattan, who died after being
stabbed in Morningside Park on Wednesday night, CBS News has
learned. The 13-year-old was caught trespassing in a building on
Thursday wearing clothes that matched the description of the
suspect.

Police arrested him for criminal trespass and during a search
found he was carrying a knife. He later confessed that he and
two others murdered Majors, CBS New York reports.

Sources said the boy told investigators that he and two friends
attempted to rob Majors and stabbed her. Police are now looking
for one of the other suspects.

A second person is in custody and being questioned, a law
enforcement official told CBS News' Norah O'Donnell. The source
said the person has not been arrested.

One theory police are looking into is that the suspects were
looking at robbing another person and then tried to rob Tess
Majors, who resisted, the source said.

Majors was stabbed several times in Morningside Park, near West
116th Street, shortly before 7 p.m. local time Wednesday. She
staggered up a staircase onto the street where a school security
guard found her and called 911.

Five people have reported being robbed at or near the same
staircase since June, The New York Times reports.

In a statement Thursday, Columbia University said, "The public
safety officer assigned to 116th Street and Morningside Drive
was at his post last night when the victim emerged from the
park, and he came to her aid immediately upon recognizing that
she was injured. ... Officers stationed at this location do not
make rounds that cause them to leave their post."

Police called to the scene found her unconscious and EMS
transported her to Mount Sinai St. Luke's Hospital, where she
was pronounced dead, according to the NYPD.

The park is a popular thoroughfare for many college students who
live near or around Columbia University and Barnard College.
According to NYPD statistics, crime is up in the park, and the
city's murder rate is also up some 8%.

In April, police said a group of teens between the ages of 12 to
15 attacked three women on three separate occasions in the
Morningside Heights neighborhood near the park, CBS New York
reports.

Crime in Morningside Park was so rampant in the 1960s and 70s
that the New York Daily News reported locals referred to it as
"Muggingside Park." But by 2001, The New York Times declared
that the Morningside "nightmare" had ended, writing, "children
are in the playgrounds … and Columbia students routinely settle
under trees to read."

Asked by CBS News correspondent Errol Barnett why the murder
rate is higher this year compared to last year, New York City
Mayor Bill de Blasio said: "Look, it's a question we are asking
ourselves strategically — not just, we feel it emotionally.
Every single one of us gets the same reports every morning and
they're not just numbers to us, they're human lives."

The mayor said he can't pinpoint a single reason for the
increase, but overall, major crimes are down in New York City.

"The idea that a college freshman at Barnard was murdered in
cold blood is absolutely not only painful to me as a parent, but
terrifying that that could happen anywhere," de Blasio said.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tessa-majors-murder-thirteen-year- old-charges-stabbing-of-barnard-freshman-today-2019-12-13/

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