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Teen who stabbed Tessa Majors to death sentenced to 14-years-to-life in prison

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NEW YORK (CBS) – The teenager who admitted to the stabbing death of a New York City college student from Charlottesville was sentenced Wednesday to 14 years to life in prison. Rashaun Weaver had pleaded guilty in December to murder and robbery in the killing of St. Anne’s-Belfield graduate Tessa Majors in 2019. Weaver, 16 now and 14 at the time, was the last of three teens to be sentenced in the case.

Majors was an 18-year old first-year student at Barnard College when she was stabbed to death in December 2019 during an attempted robbery while going through the park near campus in the early evening.

A statement from her family was read at Weaver’s sentencing, saying, “The family of Tess Majors misses her every second of every day and will continue to do so as long as they are living and sentient. Their pain is immeasurable and does not go away.”

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