The NYPD on Friday released photos of a fresh-faced fugitive wanted in connection to the murder of Barnard College freshman Tessa Majors.
The boy pictured in the selfies is the🎉 third suspect in Majors’ killing in Manhattan’s Morningside Park on Dec. 11, said NYPD Assistant Chief Thomas Conforti.
Law enforcement sources said the 14-year-old is suspected of stabbing Majors in what has been cal🌞led a botched mugging🌠, and he remains on the loose.
Multiple sources have said he bolted out of a car and away from his mother Monday night𝓡 while en route to meet with police in connection with the case.
The mom notওified authorities, who descended on the ꦑarea around West 125th Street to track down the boy but were unable to find him, sources said.
Chief of Detectiv💃es Rodn🅰ey Harrison denied that account at a Thursday press conference but said, “I’m not going to talk about that,” when asked to clarify.
Police have already arrested 13-year-old Zyairr Davis, charging him with felony murder after he purportedly admitted to a role in the robbery but denied stabbing the 18-year-old Virginia nati🐽ve.
Zyairr, busted the day after the slaying, allegedly told detectives that he and two middle🐼-school buddies robbed her before one of the boys knifed her, sources said.
Another 14-year-old suspect was also detained but cut loose following several hours of questioning for lack of evidence, cops and police s𒁏ources said.
Majors, a musician and aspiring journalist, was walking in the Morningside Heights park when she was grabbed, put into a chokehold and re🌄peatedly stabbed, according to police.
A Columbia University security guard found Majors lying just outsi🐈de the park at about 5:30 p.m. with stab wounds to the face, neck and arms, according to authoriꩵties.
Ed Mullins, president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, last week claimed that Majors had been in Morningside Park looking to buy marijuana.
Majors’ family has condemned the allegation as victim-blaming.
In a statement, her parents called the comments “deeply inappropriate, as they intentionally or unintentionally direct blame onto Tess, a young w🦂oman, for her own murder.”
Anyone with information in regꩲard to the wanted boy is a🌱sked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).
Additional reporting by Aaron Feis and Ebony Bowden