NEW YORK—One of two teens charged as adults in the fatal stabbing of a college student in a New York City park pleaded guilty Tuesday to murder and robbery charges. Luchiano Lewis was accused of holding Barnard College freshman Tessa Majors in a headlock and preventing her from escaping while another 14-year-old knifed her in Manhattan’s Morningside Park in December 2019. Lewis, now 16, downplayed his role in the attack in court Tuesday, saying he didn’t know Majors “had been stabbed, let alone killed” until the next day, when he heard someone was killed in the park and read a news story about it. Lewis and the suspected stabber, Rashaun Weaver, were charged as adults. A boy who was 13 at the time was tried as a juvenile and sentenced last year to 18 months in a juvenile detention center. Lewis is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 14 before …
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