The third and last suspect surrendered to police on Wednesday in the murder robbery case of 18-year-old freshman Tessa Majors in Harlem in December.
With the arrest of the 14-year-old, Luchiano Lewis, on Wednesday morning, all three suspects have been arrested and charged, the New York Post reported.
Majors was a first-year student at Barnard College, an all-female college and part of the Ivy League’s Columbia University in Harlem just yards away from where she was robbed and stabbed to death at Morningside Park on Dec. 11.
Lewis, who had been interviewed by police in December and was initially released without charges, was charged with felony murder and robbery in the first and second degree. He will be charged as an adult and tried along with juvenile sentencing guidelines.
Last Saturday, the main suspect, 14-year-old Rashaun Weaver, was also arrested in the fatal stabbing of the Barnard College student.
Officials said they have evidence from videotapes, witness identification, and DNA evidence from Major’s fingernail clippings linking Weaver to the crime.
Weaver was 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.
Majors was stabbed as she walked through Morningside Park early on the evening of Dec 11. She staggered up a flight of stairs to street level and collapsed in a crosswalk.
In December, 13-year-old Zyairr Davis was also arrested in relation to the stabbing incident. Davis was charged as a juvenile with felony murder told detectives. He was at the park with other youths but wasn’t the one who stabbed Majors.
The Associated Press contributed to this article
