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Cops release two teens questioned in slaying of Barnard College student Tessa Majors
By ROCCO PARASCANDOLA, ANNA SANDERS and THOMAS TRACY
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
DEC 12, 2019 | 4:24 PM
Tessa Majors (Instagram)
Two teens questioned in the stabbing death of Barnard College student Tessa Majors were released Thursday and cops say they were not involved in the mugging-turned-murder that has put the community on edge.
Police said detectives had been questioning two people at Manhattan’s 26th Precinct, but they were released and cleared as suspects.
Distraught students, meanwhile, were planning to gather for a campus vigil to honor the slain freshman. Students and staff sought solace near the spot where Majors was murdered, as cops continued to search for clues and offered a reward in exchange for useful information.
Cops said Majors, 18 was stabbed to death Wednesday evening after descending the steps of a park near the Columbia University campus
An NYPD crime scene investigator is seen here on the scene in Morningside Park where Tessa Majors was fatally stabbed Wednesday night. (Sam Costanza/for New York Daily News)
Investigators who reviewed surveillance video said Majors was jogging down a set of steps to the park on W. 116th St. near Morningside Drive shortly before 7 p.m. when at least two men confronted her and one of them stabbed her with a knife. Sources said she was slashed on her chin and stabbed underneath her arm where her heart was pierced by the knife.
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Majors managed to stagger back up the steps to a Columbia guard booth where a security officer saw the collapsed teen and called 911.
Majors was rushed to Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
“The idea that a college freshman at Barnard was murdered in cold blood is absolutely, not only painful to me as a parent, it’s terrifying to think that that could happen anywhere,” said an outraged Mayor de Blasio, after an unrelated event in Williamsburg,Brooklyn.
"It’s unbelievable to me that that could happen here next to one of our great college campuses. It’s an unacceptable reality.”
De Blasio said the city is offering counseling services to the campus and stepping up police patrols in the area.
“There’s still a lot of work that needs to be done,” said Rodney Harrison, the NYPD’s chief of detectives. “We’re going to need the community to help us with this investigation.”
Police sources said the booth was empty when Majors approached, and that the guard discovered her upon his return. But campus officials said the guard was in the booth at the time..
Harrison said the new stepped-up safety strategy would include increased patrols and light towers.
He described the investigation as “all hands on deck.”
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Harrison said a knife was recovered and was being tested for fingerprints. But he said investigators were not certain that it was the same knife used in the attack. Sources described the found weapon as a butterfly knife.
Harrison said cops were also collecting surveillance video of the area
Cops release two teens questioned in slaying of Barnard College student Tessa Majors
By ROCCO PARASCANDOLA, ANNA SANDERS and THOMAS TRACY
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
DEC 12, 2019 | 4:24 PM
Tessa Majors (Instagram)
Two teens questioned in the stabbing death of Barnard College student Tessa Majors were released Thursday and cops say they were not involved in the mugging-turned-murder that has put the community on edge.
Police said detectives had been questioning two people at Manhattan’s 26th Precinct, but they were released and cleared as suspects.
Distraught students, meanwhile, were planning to gather for a campus vigil to honor the slain freshman. Students and staff sought solace near the spot where Majors was murdered, as cops continued to search for clues and offered a reward in exchange for useful information.
Cops said Majors, 18 was stabbed to death Wednesday evening after descending the steps of a park near the Columbia University campus
An NYPD crime scene investigator is seen here on the scene in Morningside Park where Tessa Majors was fatally stabbed Wednesday night. (Sam Costanza/for New York Daily News)
Investigators who reviewed surveillance video said Majors was jogging down a set of steps to the park on W. 116th St. near Morningside Drive shortly before 7 p.m. when at least two men confronted her and one of them stabbed her with a knife. Sources said she was slashed on her chin and stabbed underneath her arm where her heart was pierced by the knife.
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Majors managed to stagger back up the steps to a Columbia guard booth where a security officer saw the collapsed teen and called 911.
Majors was rushed to Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
“The idea that a college freshman at Barnard was murdered in cold blood is absolutely, not only painful to me as a parent, it’s terrifying to think that that could happen anywhere,” said an outraged Mayor de Blasio, after an unrelated event in Williamsburg,Brooklyn.
"It’s unbelievable to me that that could happen here next to one of our great college campuses. It’s an unacceptable reality.”
De Blasio said the city is offering counseling services to the campus and stepping up police patrols in the area.
“There’s still a lot of work that needs to be done,” said Rodney Harrison, the NYPD’s chief of detectives. “We’re going to need the community to help us with this investigation.”
Police sources said the booth was empty when Majors approached, and that the guard discovered her upon his return. But campus officials said the guard was in the booth at the time..
Harrison said the new stepped-up safety strategy would include increased patrols and light towers.
He described the investigation as “all hands on deck.”
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Harrison said a knife was recovered and was being tested for fingerprints. But he said investigators were not certain that it was the same knife used in the attack. Sources described the found weapon as a butterfly knife.
Harrison said cops were also collecting surveillance video of the area
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