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Tessa Majors, 18, was stabbed multiple times with a knife on
Wednesday evening during a robbery while walking through
Harlem's Morningside Park near her school, Barnard College,
according to the New York Police Department. Police believe
there were up to three attackers.
Majors was able to stagger out of the park to seek help at a
nearby school security booth, and was declared dead at a
hospital. She was completing her first semester at the
women-only college after leaving her home in Charlottesville,
Virginia, to move to the city.
Morningside Park has long had a reputation for being unsafe and
the site of numerous crimes, including murders.
"1 individual has been arrested & this remains an active
investigation," NYPD Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison said on
Twitter late on Friday without providing any additional
information on the identity of the person detained.
Police found the 13-year-old boy on Thursday while canvassing a
building lobby nearby, television station CBS2, reported, citing
unnamed police officials. His clothes matched the description of
the suspect, and he was found carrying a knife, the station
reported.
CBS2 and other local news channels reported that the boy, whose
name has not been disclosed, confessed to police that he and two
friends tried to rob Majors and stabbed her.
Arlene Muniz, a police spokeswoman, said she could not comment
on any arrests in the case.
Majors played bass guitar in a band called Patient 0, which
released its first album in September, according to her
Instagram account.
Crime rates in New York City have been steadily declining, but
city officials acknowledged an uptick in murders during the last
months of the year.
(Reporting by Jonathan Allen in New York; Editing by Jonathan
Oatis and Daniel Wallis)
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