Manhunt Underway for Tessa’s Killer

Truth or Consequences

"I caution the court against a rush to judgement that would only cause
additional harm to the Harlem and Barnard communities."
- Legal Aid Society's Hannah Kaplan, December 17, 2019

New York City investigators released the attached photograph of an unnamed 14-year old African American accused of ferociously stabbing Barnard College freshman Tessa Majors to death, December 11.

Earlier in the week the suspect fled on foot when relatives were driving him to speak to detectives, sources say.

A 13-year old identified as Zyairr Davis is in custody and charged with second-degree murder, robbery in the first degree, and criminal possession of a weapon. He is also charged with trespassing at an Upper West Side mall where he was allegedly fighting with employees after shoplifting. His arrest in that matter provided evidence in the death of 18-year old Majors.

A third Harlem teenager invoked his right to remain silent and remains a suspect.

Majors, of Charlottesville, Virginia, died after an encounter with the juvenile delinquents in Manhattan.

Davis told investigators Majors was jogging down a stairwell in Morningside Park near the intersection of West 116th Street and Morningside Drive.

NYPD Detective Vincent Signoretti told a family court judge last week that the trio decided to go to Morningside Heights and commit a robbery. After initially stalking a middle-aged man, they selected Majors as their quarry.

“He (Davis) watched his friend grab the victim, put her in a choke hold, and remove items from her pocket. He made a slashing, stabbing motion toward the victim. He saw feathers fly out of her jacket and then all three fled the park together,” Signoretti testified.

Authorities, New York media, and talk radio continue to speculate about the crimes.

Now a Mystic, Connecticut man is charged with making threats against the unnamed 14-year old whose picture was distributed by the NYPD.

“I’m going to search for him myself tonight. Armed and ready to fire. Then the parents are next,” Trevor Spring, 31, allegedly wrote on social media.

NYPD's Racially and Ethnically Motivated Extremism Unit sprang into action and traced Spring’s post to a Connecticut internet provider. State Police in North Stonington, 140 miles northeast of Manhattan on the Rhode Island border, soon affected an arrest.

Spring admitted he made the blog entry out of anger and without real intent, and that he owned no firearms. A search of his home confirmed the claim and Spring was released on $5000 bond with a hearing scheduled for January 3 in New London.

In sum, ten days after the disfigurement and death of Majors, a collegian at one of the nation’s most selective schools, only one suspect is charged while two others continue to evade arrest.

What'll be next?

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