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Rashaun Weaver will be tried as an adult in the death of Barnard College student Tessa Majors
by Nathan'ette Burdine: February 18, 2020
 


A 14-year-old teenager named Rashaun Weaver will be tried as an adult in the death of an 18-year-old Barnard College student named Tessa Majors.

According to a NYPD complaint, Weaver and two other individuals approached Majors on December 11, 2019, in Morningside Park. After approaching Majors, the three attacked her. The police reported that Majors bit Weaver and scratched him during the altercation, and that it was after Majors bit Weaver that he stabbed her.

Majors stumbled up the stairs, onto the street where, according to CBS New York, she told a person, “Help me, I’m being robbed.” Majors was taken to a local hospital where she died shortly thereafter.

One of the suspects, Zayirr Davis, has been charged with second degree murder, as an accomplice to a crime. The third suspect spoke with the police, but he has not been charged with a crime. Weaver has been charged with multiple counts of robbery and murder in the second degree.

In the state of New York, murder in the second degree is a felony that carries a minimum of 15 years to life sentence in prison. And as y’all can see, it’s a slim to none chance that Weaver will get the minimum of 15 years in prison. Weaver will be trialed as an adult for allegedly committing the heinous act of murder, and he should be.

At 14, he’s old enough to know what robbery and death is. He’s not a baby. He’s not two-years old. He’s a 14-year-old teenager who’s been living long enough to know right from wrong, and that his alleged actions of going to a park to rob a fellow human being could lead to that human being dying.

Unfortunately for Majors, she is the human being who ended up dying due to Weaver’s alleged heinous actions. A death, which by the way, didn’t have to be if Weaver had spent his time in a more productive way than using it, allegedly, to rob and kill another person.

The sadness in Rashaun Weaver’s case is that he doesn’t know that he, allegedly, threw his life away when he, allegedly, decided to use his time, energy, and efforts in a non-productive way when he took Tessa Majors’ life away from her, her family, and her friends.






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