Third teen sentenced in murder of Barnard student Tessa Majors

The final chapter in a murder that rattled New York City was written Wednesday when the teen who pleaded guilty in December to fatally stabbing 18-year-old Barnard freshman Tessa Majors in Morningside Park was sentenced to 14-years-to-life in prison.

Rashaun Weaver, who was 14 at the time of the killing in 2019, received the agreed-upon sentence.

Majors' anguished parents sat in the front row of the courtroom, feet from the then-14 year-old who fatally stabbed their daughter in the robbery gone bad as Weaver was sent to prison for 14-to-life.

Her parents "miss her every second of every day," they said in a statement read by the prosecutor, Matthew Bogdanos.

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