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Tessa Majors Killing: 14-Year-Old Boy Charged With Murder

From left, Chief Rodney Harrison of the New York Police Department, Cyrus Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, and Commissioner Dermot Shea announce murder charges against a 14-year-old boy in Tessa Majors’s killing in New York on Feb. 15, 2020. A 14-year-old boy has been charged with two counts of second-degree murder and several counts of robbery in the killing of Majors, during a park robbery near her school in December, the authorities said he would be tried as an adult. (Jefferson Siegel/The New York Times)