Tessa Majors killing: Focus turns to DNA evidence
NEW YORK — Investigators are focusing on DNA evidence in their efforts to build a case in the killing of Tessa Majors, the Barnard College student who was stabbed during a park mugging in Manhattan early this month, officials said Friday.
Investigators have tested Majors’ mouth and the clothes she was wearing the night she was killed, as well as pieces of clothing they managed to recover from the suspects, who are ages 13 and 14, said an official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Police charged a 13-year-old with second-degree felony murder the day after the killing and tried to interview one of the two 14-year-olds. But the 14-year-old — who is not the teenager who police believe stabbed Majors — requested a lawyer and declined to give a statement, officials said.
Authorities believed that the teenager’s family was shielding him until a mark on his hand fully healed. An official described the mark as consistent with a bite. The 13-year-old told police that his classmates grabbed Majors from behind, according to two detectives who have testified during court hearings. During a struggle, the 13-year-old said, the 14-year-old wielding a knife stabbed her so forcibly that feathers from her winter coat flew into the air.
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