"There was a security orientation, but there wasn't anything about that park specifically," said Sarah Kopyto, a first-year Barnard student. "It is their responsibility as an institution to not just tell them about the great things of this city, but to also talk to them about the possibility of dangers," Sekou added. "They would prey on people. Young and violent, Sekou points out. Crime Statistics (Excel) Contact Information 520 West 126th Street New York, NY, 10027-2406 Precinct: (212) 678-1311 Community Affairs: (212) 678-1301 Crime Prevention: (212) 678-1330 - Ann Cardenas - E-mail: Ann.Cardenas@nypd.org Domestic Violence Prevention Officer: (212) 678-1342 - E-mail Youth Coordination Officer: (212) 678-1388 - E-mail Murder, robbery, felony assault, and burglary all these plummeted between 2000 and 2018. A few, including the boy, were wearing the khaki pants that identified them, possibly, as students at P.S. The older boys are both 14 and, charged with murder and robbery, will be tried in the youth part of the criminal court. Police have arrested a 13-year-old boy in connection with the murder of 18-year-old Tessa Majors, a first-year Barnard College student who was fatally stabbed in Morningside Park on Wednesday. 'Sucker-Punch Attacks' in Morningside Park Have - West Side Rag While Barnard has "its own trustees, faculty, and dean" and is in charge of its own endowment and facilities, it shares some common responsibilities with Columbia, including security. After that, the older ones went through her pockets and then they all ran. NBC New York's Ida Siegal reports. Tessa Majors was a freshman at Barnard College when she was stabbed in Morningside Park in what police say was a robbery. I was told not to walk through that park," Melony said. "There's a reasonable expectation that if theres a threat to students thats occurring near the campus, a timely warning is appropriate in the most serious of threats," Carter said, who has written about off-campus safety warnings. That was our worst fear: that someone from up the hill would come down the hill and one of the students would be killed. Tess was tiny and feminine and among her peers had started to use they/them pronouns, although she didnt insist on it. Justice Department lawyers said in a court filing that the suspected leaker had a history of making disturbing comments online. The email was sincere, even anguished, but these two little words, off campus, reflected a lawyers touch, a self-protective assertion, in writing, defining the costs and risks of living in a big city as beyond the jurisdiction of the college recruiting students there. I want to be in a still place and hear the facts.. Columbia University President Lee Bollinger also released a statement, describing her attack Thursday as an "unthinkable tragedy." Thirty skinny, overgrown, vertical acres, it forms a split-level boundary between the promontory where Columbia University and Barnard College stand, fortresslike, and the flats of Harlem, its elegant brownstones mixed with storefronts and public housing. A college student was brutally stabbed in a park near Columbia University in what police say was a robbery The victim was identified as 18-year-old Tessa Majors NYPD crime statistics show that. Gothamist is a website about New York City news, arts, events and food, brought to you by New York Public Radio. I enjoy taking difficult classes and feel invigorated when forced outside of my intellectual comfort zone. Last nights murder of a young woman near Morningside Park is despicable, unacceptable and goes against everything NYC stands for. The college kept the counseling center open and added extra staff. Some of the kids have been arrested 15 or 16 times. This is one of the people who insisted that all of the memorials for Tess be named celebrations, that they be saturated with music Sly & the Family Stone and Paul Simon and Violent Femmes that people dance and sing if so moved, that the lyrics to Prom Queen, Tesss song about falling in love with a girl, be printed on the back of the program. A law enforcement source said a witness saw a group of people running from where the attack happened. A longtime Harlem homeowner looked at the police presence cynically, as a performance designed to quell the race-based anxieties of white people in Harlem and Morningside Heights. Things you buy through our links may earn Vox Media a commission. If the endangered Democratic senator runs again, he could face West Virginias popular governor. 180 is overflowing, the middle school is moribund, an add-on, says Genisha Metcalf, who is the head of the PTA. Immediately, the murder felt to the community and the city like a buried memory of an earlier, more violent time. In the courtroom, theres another frequent visitor. Overnight, before anyone had the time to process this violent death, let alone to properly mourn or responsibly gather evidence and facts, the murder had become a focal point in the nations most tribal fulminations. The stairs in Morningside Park on December 15, four days after the fatal stabbing there of Barnard student Tessa Majors. While awaiting his trial in April, the boy has been held at Crossroads detention center, a place sometimes referred to as gladiator school. Whatever happens, this boy will get off easy, compared to his friends. Suspect is a male wearing a green jacket and a mask. Columbia University's public safety website. There's a growing memorial for Majors at Morningside Park and the crime scene is still blocked off as police continue to search for the Barnard College freshman's killer on Friday. Or what to say. A candlelight vigil for Majors in Morningside Park on December 15. This same boy, the one who was bitten (and who police say robbed another man at knifepoint that same week), then stabbed Tess with enough force that the youngest boy, who was standing apart, could see feathers shooting out of Tesss down jacket I think it was purple, he said. Now, throughout the hallways where the first-years lived and where a group had recently commandeered a communal bathroom at midnight to help Tess dye her hair seaweed green, you could hear people scream. A fairly typical courtroom treatment of a rape accuser. but recent crime data is . There was a moment of silence before they walked in a long, solemn line into the building. Derrick Haynes is speculating, but he fixates on an early news story according to which one of the older boys dropped the knife before the murder and the boy picked it up and handed it back. Parents urged their daughters to come home as soon as they could They needed that, too, Paulette Arnold observes but the daughters were torn, because out in the regular world, no one could possibly understand what they were going through, the sense (which in some weird way was amazing) that everyone knew everyone elses thoughts, that you could spy another Barnard student crossing the street, lock eyes, and understand. Its pretty desensitizing. White students mostly agreed, while students who disagreed stayed silent. Its very strange, but on some level its like, Shit, another one of those. In the late 1980s, the citys climate of racism and fear propelled the wrongful conviction of innocent teens. All the cops were the citys answer to an unasked question: What are you going to do to protect us from the natives?, as he put it to me. The statistics doesn't include Central Park. Incredibly, the first president to conceal a television behind the, Republicans Get Prize Recruit Jim Justice to Take On Joe Manchin. Tessa Majors, an 18-year-old freshman at Barnard . But more than that she was bold, as a fellow first-year put it. They had police at the park entrances and exits, around the park, police on horseback. A law enforcement source tells News 4 people are looking into whether the deadly robbery may be connected to another nearby robbery from less than a week earlier. Tess refused to hand over her phone. Cop cars drove up on the sidewalks, and the machine-gun chop of helicopters filled the air. The Stabbing in Morningside Park. In this Dec. 15, 2019, file photo, views of the crime scene are shown in Morningside Park four days after Tessa Majors, a Barnard freshman, was murdered, in New York. Columbia University Student Davide Giri Stabbed To Death Near 26 Precinct - NYPD - New York City They stressed basic safety information. 3 is Flushing Meadows at 42 reports of major crimes. Fearless, said someone who had known her for a very long time. It was creepy and morbid to be on the steps after dark, not soothing or uplifting. Sasha Hochman met Tess on the fourth night of school when they went out with a big group of first-years into the city, and while they never became close friends, Sasha liked seeing Tess in the elevator or the cafeteria. 2023 New York Public Radio. Add to List. Did it learn from that mistake? He sits in the corner farthest from the boy, near the door, on a hard, narrow, uncomfortable bench. @NYPDDetectives are working tirelessly to bring those responsible to justice. The college freshman, an aspiring writer, played in a band and she recently had her first show in October, according to her Instagram posts. Its been a decade since theyve made it this far in the playoffs. A law enforcement source tells NBC New York that investigators are looking into whether the fatal stabbing is connected to another robbery nearby that took place on Dec. 5. I encourage you to reach out to the following additional on-campus resources as needed: Dean of Studies Office: 105 Milbank Hall, (212) 854-2024. He said he and other members of the university's senior leadership were working closely with Barnard and the NYPD to better understand the details. Niche. 180 has changed, too; it is now that precious commodity, a hot public school. Emotions were running high, though some students dared to complain in low voices about the study time they were sacrificing to attend the event while friends shushed them angrily. The teenager, now 14 .