14-Year-Old Charged With Murder Of New York College Student

A 14-year-old kid has been captured and charged in the wounding demise of a New York college understudy, specialists said Saturday, for a situation that is by and large firmly viewed because of its racial elements.

Tessa Majors, 18, a first-year recruit at Barnard College, was assaulted by three youngsters as she strolled through Morningside Park on December 11.

The recreation centre isolates the esteemed Barnard College and Columbia University from Harlem, the transcendently dark neighbourhood in Manhattan's northwest.

Majors, who were white, was discovered simply outside the recreation centre draining vigorously, the criminal protest said. She had been cut on different occasions in the chest and passed on at a medical clinic.

Rashaun Weaver, 14, who is dark, was blamed for cutting Majors. He had been needed for half a month and was captured without episode Friday night.

Weaver will be attempted as a grown-up on second-degree murder and theft accusations, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said.

"We are certain that we have the individual in authority who wounded her, and that individual will confront equity in an official courtroom," New York police boss Dermot Shea told a news meeting.

Vance said examiners have video and DNA proof and recommended the suspect had implicated himself on a sound chronicle.

A 13-year-old affirmed accessory was additionally charged yet will be attempted in adolescent court.

The occasions bring out recollections of the 1989 "Focal Park Five" case when five dark and Hispanic adolescents were wrongly indicted and condemned to jail for the assault and attack of a white female jogger in the popular park.

Vance recommended the sensitivities of the most recent case contributed, to some extent, to the postponement in charging Weaver.

"We're managing a multi year old, and we will be mindful of protecting all the rights that he has as we go ahead with this case," he said.

"I need New Yorkers to realise that we are committing once again today to reasonableness right now, just a reasonable procedure will bring about evident equity for Tessa Majors."