Final teen sentenced in murder of Barnard student Tessa Majors
ABC News
The final teenager to face justice in the murder of Barnard College freshman Tessa Majors received his sentence Wednesday.
The anguished parents of slain Barnard College student Tessa Majors sat in the front row of a New York City courtroom Wednesday, looking on as the teenager who stabbed their daughter was sentenced to 14 years to life.
Rashaun Weaver, who prosecutors said wielded the knife, and two other teenagers were arrested in the slaying of 18-year-old Majors, who was attacked in Morningside Park, just off the Columbia University campus, on Dec. 11, 2019.
Majors, stabbed four times, stumbled up the park steps before she was seen on surveillance video collapsing against a lamppost, dying on the sidewalk.
A victim impact statement read in court said Majors' family has "no idea what it is like to experience what she experienced. No idea what it is to fight with three males -- all of them larger than she -- for over a minute, escaping two times only to be surrounded and targeted again."
