Teenager Pleads Guilty in the Killing of Tessa Majors
The New York Times
Ms. Majors, a Barnard College student, was stabbed to death in 2019 in a killing that rattled New York City. One of her killers pleaded guilty on Tuesday.
When Tessa Majors, an 18-year-old Barnard College student, was found murdered in Morningside Park in 2019, New York City responded with shock and grief.
For many, the brutal stabbing recalled an earlier time, from the sudden violence of a crime committed against a young woman to fears that investigators would crack down on innocents, as they had in the Central Park Five case decades earlier.
But Ms. Majors’s story was not a vestige of an earlier era: It was a 21st-century tragedy. And on Tuesday, a 16-year-old pleaded guilty to her murder in Manhattan Criminal Court and described at length the encounter that led to her violent death on a chilly December evening in Morningside Park.
