A 14-year-old was detained in the Bronx on Thursday in the killing of Tessa Majors, the Barnard College student who was stabbed in a park near campus during what the police believe was a mugging. New York City police had been searching for the teenager since the day after the killing on Dec. 11, and officials had taken the unusual step of releasing a photo of a minor in an effort to locate him. Ms. Majors, 18, was attacked just after nightfall by three teenagers in Morningside Park in Manhattan, and the 14-year-old detained early Thursday is believed to have been the one who stabbed her, the police said. The Police Department’s chief of detectives, Rodney Harrison, announced on Twitter that the suspect had been located. Investigators were questioning the boy, whom the authorities did not name, into the afternoon at the 26th Precinct station house in Morningside Heights, near where the attack occurred.

Source: New York Times December 26, 2019 15:45 UTC