Barnard student stabbed to death

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So tragic. Shocked it happened in early evening. Nobody saw her lying on the ground for half an hour. I am sure there must be people walking near the park. Pedestrians on the sidewalk, many vehicles plying the streets. Its a busy area.

That's the part that troubles me...no one saw her in a busy area? Or is it just that no one bothered to stop? Upsetting to say the least. I'm also skeptical that the security guard was "on rounds."

Seriously?

I get that we all want to live in a place where nothing bad ever happens at random, but there's a reason it's called the just world fallacy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So tragic. Shocked it happened in early evening. Nobody saw her lying on the ground for half an hour. I am sure there must be people walking near the park. Pedestrians on the sidewalk, many vehicles plying the streets. Its a busy area.

That's the part that troubles me...no one saw her in a busy area? Or is it just that no one bothered to stop? Upsetting to say the least. I'm also skeptical that the security guard was "on rounds."

PP doesn't actually know the area. It SEEMS like it should be busy because it's in the middle of New York, but it's actually not. The stairs in particular can be totally deserted, and are totally hidden from passersby. Some parts of Morningside Park are more visible and perfectly safe (there's a playground I go to there) but this is a hidden spot of the park.

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Her dad’s a professor at JMU.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As a parent of a student on Morningside Heights, I can't begin to imagine the pain that her family must be suffering now.

When tragedy strikes, it's pretty natural for people to block the sadness of losing such a promising life. But, it's really just small-hearted to blame an entire community (Harlem) or suggest that the student should have known better than to go into Morningside Park. It might make it easier for you, but is it so hard to imagine how hurtful that would be to someone close to the victim?

jfk. save it. nobody blamed Harlem, and yes, people should not walk down the 116th St stairs alone, at any time of day.

I spent three years at Columbia and living in Morningside Heights and never entered that park. It was always considered dangerous, and rapes and assaults were common. Harlem is safer now but that park is treacherous. Still way too many low-lifes in the area.

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This is so tragic.

I often think of the college student from Prince Georges County who was killed at Morgan State in Baltimore a few months ago.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-cr-shootings-20190711-20190711-e67z3zydpnctthitpjwv3dpi7y-story.html

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Not sure what can I do to equip daughter from being attacked by a group of men armed with a knife. Unfortunately, it’s not possible to predict every potential hazard and equip and protect our kids from. This is something that can happen in a city and there are plenty of examples from DC - the young intern who was attacked with knife, the theatre worker a few years back who was murdered around Christmas or thanksgiving as she was going to friends’ house, the man some years ago beaten to pulp, the mid-identity murder of the young boy in NY outside a bodega... there are things we could try to solve as society, but it’s impossible to prepare one young person to withstand.

[Anonymous]

Uh, if you go to Columbia or Barnard, you stay the hell out of Morningside Park when alone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Uh, if you go to Columbia or Barnard, you stay the hell out of Morningside Park when alone.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So tragic. Shocked it happened in early evening. Nobody saw her lying on the ground for half an hour. I am sure there must be people walking near the park. Pedestrians on the sidewalk, many vehicles plying the streets. Its a busy area.

That's the part that troubles me...no one saw her in a busy area? Or is it just that no one bothered to stop? Upsetting to say the least. I'm also skeptical that the security guard was "on rounds."

PP doesn't actually know the area. It SEEMS like it should be busy because it's in the middle of New York, but it's actually not. The stairs in particular can be totally deserted, and are totally hidden from passersby. Some parts of Morningside Park are more visible and perfectly safe (there's a playground I go to there) but this is a hidden spot of the park.

I didn't comment on the place of stabbing (on the stairs). But the news item states she walked back up the stairs and was down on the ground in front of the guard house. And nobody saw her for 30 minutes!

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I don't know the area, but PPs have said it is a place to avoid.

Just want to comment that many, if not all of us, did things we now consider really dumb at that age. We think we are so cosmopolitan and trusting. We are optimistic and open. We are mostly lucky that something bad didn't happen to us when we did equally questionable things.

The wolves among us look for the innocent ones.

[Anonymous]

in the 90s the school specifically told us over and over again at orientation to stay away from Morningside Park. I wonder if the school has eased upon that. Truthfully when I heard I thought "sounds like something that would happen in DC, not New York"

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Tessa Rane Majors, a Barnard College student, was found unconscious with multiple stab wounds near Morningside Park in Upper Manhattan Wednesday evening, police said. She was rushed to Mount Sinai St. Luke's Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, according to a statement from the New York City Police Department.

The 18-year-old was walking through the park, right by the campuses of Barnard and Columbia University, when she was engaged by an unknown number of suspects, NYPD Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison told reporters at a news conference.

During a struggle, one of the suspects pulled out a knife and stabbed Majors several times, Harrison said. A knife was recovered from the scene, but it is unclear if it is the weapon used in the stabbing.

After Majors pulled herself out of the park, a school public safety officer at his post at 116th Street and Morningside Drive "came to her aid immediately upon recognizing that she was injured," according to a statement from Columbia University, which called reports that the security guard was not at his post "inaccurate."

"Officers stationed at this location do not make rounds that cause them to leave their post," the statement said.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/18-year-barnard-college-student-tessa-rane-major/story?id=67679789

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So tragic. Shocked it happened in early evening. Nobody saw her lying on the ground for half an hour. I am sure there must be people walking near the park. Pedestrians on the sidewalk, many vehicles plying the streets. Its a busy area.

That's the part that troubles me...no one saw her in a busy area? Or is it just that no one bothered to stop? Upsetting to say the least. I'm also skeptical that the security guard was "on rounds."

PP doesn't actually know the area. It SEEMS like it should be busy because it's in the middle of New York, but it's actually not. The stairs in particular can be totally deserted, and are totally hidden from passersby. Some parts of Morningside Park are more visible and perfectly safe (there's a playground I go to there) but this is a hidden spot of the park.

I didn't comment on the place of stabbing (on the stairs). But the news item states she walked back up the stairs and was down on the ground in front of the guard house. And nobody saw her for 30 minutes!

It's hard to know exactly what happened, but you can't see the stairs from the sidewalk there, and it's also not very heavily trafficked at all by pedestrians.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:in the 90s the school specifically told us over and over again at orientation to stay away from Morningside Park. I wonder if the school has eased upon that. Truthfully when I heard I thought "sounds like something that would happen in DC, not New York"

wow so interesting. I don't think we were told that in the early 2000s but you still knew to be cautious there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:in the 90s the school specifically told us over and over again at orientation to stay away from Morningside Park. I wonder if the school has eased upon that. Truthfully when I heard I thought "sounds like something that would happen in DC, not New York"

Wouldn't be PC to say that anymore.