
The teenager who fatally stabbed Barnard student Tessa Majors in Morningside Park two years ago pleaded guilty to the murder on Thursday.
The apprehended Suspect, Rashaun Weaver, had admitted and pleaded guilty in Manhattan Supreme Court that he delivered the deadly wounds in the robbery gone wrong. He pleaded guilty to murder and robbery.
Weaver and two friends from school — Luchiano Lewis, now 16, and a then-13-year-old boy — went to the park near the Columbia University campus on Dec. 11, 2019, with the intention of mugging someone.
The police said.
After first bothering a man and woman, the three turned their attention to Majors, an Ivy League freshman.
She was walking down the steps near West 116th Street and Morningside Drive when Weaver ran up behind her, kicked her in the back and demanded her money, Lewis said when he pleaded guilty in September.
Rashaun started screaming, ‘Give me your money, run your pockets, I’m not playing,.
Lewis recalled.
The prosecutors said that, During the struggle, Weaver had stabbed Majors four times including once in Tessa’s Heart.
The Sentence of Rashaun Weaver by the Judge.
The brutality of the crime was shown in never-before-seen footage played during Lewis’ trial.
He will be sentence.on January 2022, and At his sentencing of nine years to life in October, an emotional Lewis apologized to Majors’ father, who wept and became visibly overwhelmed as the teen spoke.
Also, the third boy who was there pleaded guilty to robbery in June 2020 and got the maximum Sentence of 18 months in prison.
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Tessa Majors have takes out her cellphone to call an Uber and crumples to the ground beside a street lamp, seen from the Camera nearby.
She was 18-year-old and stumbled up to a university security booth, but the guard was out doing his rounds. He found her bleeding heavily when he returned, authorities said.
The judge has offered Weaver a sentence of 14 years to life, while Assistant District Attorney Matthew Bogdanos asked for at least 15 years behind bars.
Lewis said that;
As a human, I feel ashamed, embarrassed and sad at the role I played,
I am deeply sorry for your loss. I hope after this you can accept my apology.