Teenager Sentenced to 9 Years to Life in Killing of Tessa Majors
The New York Times
Luchiano Lewis admitted to taking part in the 2019 attack in which Ms. Majors, an 18-year-old Barnard College student, was stabbed to death in Morningside Park.
A teenager who last month pleaded guilty to murder in the killing of an 18-year-old Barnard student was sentenced on Thursday to nine years to life in prison.
The teenager, Luchiano Lewis, 16, said last month that he and two friends had gone to Harlem’s Morningside Park in December 2019 with the goal of robbing someone. The group settled on Tessa Majors, Mr. Lewis said, describing a violent attack on the student that culminated in her death by stabbing.
At the time, Mr. Lewis was 14. Prosecutors at the Manhattan district attorney’s office chose to charge him and one other member of the group, Rashaun Weaver, as adults. Mr. Weaver, who Mr. Lewis last month said had stabbed Ms. Majors, pleaded not guilty. His trial date is expected to be set early next week.
