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   A 13-year-old boy will be charged in the murder of Tessa Majors,   
   a freshman at Barnard College in Manhattan, who died after being   
   stabbed in Morningside Park on Wednesday night, CBS News has   
   learned. The 13-year-old was caught trespassing in a building on   
   Thursday wearing clothes that matched the description of the   
   suspect.   
      
   Police arrested him for criminal trespass and during a search   
   found he was carrying a knife. He later confessed that he and   
   two others murdered Majors, CBS New York reports.   
      
   Sources said the boy told investigators that he and two friends   
   attempted to rob Majors and stabbed her. Police are now looking   
   for one of the other suspects.   
      
   A second person is in custody and being questioned, a law   
   enforcement official told CBS News' Norah O'Donnell. The source   
   said the person has not been arrested.   
      
   One theory police are looking into is that the suspects were   
   looking at robbing another person and then tried to rob Tess   
   Majors, who resisted, the source said.   
      
   Majors was stabbed several times in Morningside Park, near West   
   116th Street, shortly before 7 p.m. local time Wednesday. She   
   staggered up a staircase onto the street where a school security   
   guard found her and called 911.   
      
   Five people have reported being robbed at or near the same   
   staircase since June, The New York Times reports.   
      
   In a statement Thursday, Columbia University said, "The public   
   safety officer assigned to 116th Street and Morningside Drive   
   was at his post last night when the victim emerged from the   
   park, and he came to her aid immediately upon recognizing that   
   she was injured. ... Officers stationed at this location do not   
   make rounds that cause them to leave their post."   
      
   Police called to the scene found her unconscious and EMS   
   transported her to Mount Sinai St. Luke's Hospital, where she   
   was pronounced dead, according to the NYPD.   
      
   The park is a popular thoroughfare for many college students who   
   live near or around Columbia University and Barnard College.   
   According to NYPD statistics, crime is up in the park, and the   
   city's murder rate is also up some 8%.   
      
   In April, police said a group of teens between the ages of 12 to   
   15 attacked three women on three separate occasions in the   
   Morningside Heights neighborhood near the park, CBS New York   
   reports.   
      
   Crime in Morningside Park was so rampant in the 1960s and 70s   
   that the New York Daily News reported locals referred to it as   
   "Muggingside Park." But by 2001, The New York Times declared   
   that the Morningside "nightmare" had ended, writing, "children   
   are in the playgrounds … and Columbia students routinely settle   
   under trees to read."   
      
   Asked by CBS News correspondent Errol Barnett why the murder   
   rate is higher this year compared to last year, New York City   
   Mayor Bill de Blasio said: "Look, it's a question we are asking   
   ourselves strategically — not just, we feel it emotionally.   
   Every single one of us gets the same reports every morning and   
   they're not just numbers to us, they're human lives."   
      
   The mayor said he can't pinpoint a single reason for the   
   increase, but overall, major crimes are down in New York City.   
      
   "The idea that a college freshman at Barnard was murdered in   
   cold blood is absolutely not only painful to me as a parent, but   
   terrifying that that could happen anywhere," de Blasio said.   
      
   https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tessa-majors-murder-thirteen-year-   
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