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14-year-old charged with Barnard College student death

FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2019 file photo, a woman walks past a make-shift memorial for Tessa Majors inside the Barnard College campus in New York. Authorities say a 14-year-old was arrested in fatal stabbing of Majors on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020. Majors was stabbed as she walked through Manhattan's Morningside Park on Dec. 11. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2019 file photo, a woman walks past a make-shift memorial for Tessa Majors inside the Barnard College campus in New York. Authorities say a 14-year-old was arrested in fatal stabbing of Majors on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020. Majors was stabbed as she walked through Manhattan's Morningside Park on Dec. 11. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File) FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2019 file photo, a woman walks past a make-shift memorial for Tessa Majors inside the Barnard College campus in New York. Authorities say a 14-year-old was arrested in fatal stabbing of Majors on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020. Majors was stabbed as she walked through Manhattan's Morningside Park on Dec. 11. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

By Associated Press 3 min read

NEW YORK (AP) – A 14-year-old has been arrested in the fatal stabbing of a Barnard College student in a park during a robbery in December, a crime that rattled New York City residents, authorities said Saturday.

Rashaun Weaver has been indicted by a grand jury and was taken into custody Friday night without incident, New York City Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said at a news conference.

Weaver, charged with second-degree murder and robbery, is the second teenager to be charged in the attack on 18-year-old Tessa Majors in a Manhattan park.

“We are confident that we have the person in custody who stabbed her,” Shea said. “And that person will face justice in a court of law.”

The Associated Press is naming the juvenile defendant because of the seriousness of the crime and because he has been charged as an adult. Weaver’s attorney, Elsie Chandler, did not immediately return a call to Neighbor Defender Service of Harlem seeking comment.