New York City college student found with fatal stab wounds in Manhattan park
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A Barnard College student was discovered brutally stabbed after a robbery gone horribly awry inside a park in upper Manhattan on Wednesday, sources said.
Tessa Majors, 18, was found by a school security guard inside Morningside Park near West 116th Street and Morningside Drive at around 5:30 p.m., according to police sources.
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Sources said that the woman was beaten and stabbed by a group 3 or 4 men at the bottom of the stairs on a landing.
“We mourn this devastating murder of an extraordinary young woman and member of our community,” Barnard president Sian Leah Beilock said in a statement Wednesday night. “Tessa was just beginning her journey at Barnard and in life.”
A trail of blood was found in the park as Majors apparently tried to make her way back up the stairs toward Morningside Avenue after the brutal encounter, sources said.
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Preliminary information suggested that Majors was stabbed several times in face, neck, and under her arm after she put up a fight when the men tried to rob her, sources added.
Majors was taken to Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital, where she died.
A security guard post was nearby but sources said that the guard was on patrol at the time of the stabbing.
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The school president, Beilock, called the incident “an unthinkable tragedy that has shaken us to our core.”
She added: “Please know that we are all grieving together and I am thinking of you as we process this awful news as a community.”