A first-year Barnard College student was fatally stabbed during a mugging in Morningside Park Wednesday night, just steps away from Columbia University, police sources said.
Tessa Majors, 18, was walking down a set of steps to the park on W. 116th St. near Morningside Drive when a group of young men confronted her and tried to rob her, sources said.
One of the men knifed her repeatedly in the stomach, and the group scattered, sources said.
Majors staggered back up the steps to a Columbia security guard booth, but the guard was out doing his rounds, sources told the Daily News. When he returned, he found the collapsed teen and called 911. A hat, a butterfly knife and an uncharged cell phone were found near her body.
