David Dee Delgado via Getty Images A makeshift memorial for murdered Barnard College student Tessa Majors, who was killed last week in New York City's Morningside Park. The family of an 18-year-old college student murdered in a Manhattan park last week is denouncing allegations from a New York police union official that she was looking to buy marijuana when she was murdered, according to a Daily Beast report. On Sunday, Ed Mullins, president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, a major police union in the city, claimed that Tessa Majors had gone to Morningside Park on Dec. 11 looking to purchase weed. According to the NYPD, the first-year Barnard College student was walking through the park that evening when she was approached by a group of individuals demanding her belongings. In a statement to the Daily Beast, Majors’ family denounced Mullins’ allegation as a form of victim-blaming.

Source: Huffington Post December 16, 2019 18:45 UTC