NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- A 16-year-old boy who was arrested and charged with holding Barnard student Tessa Majors down while another boy stabbed her to death in a Manhattan park in 2019 has been sentenced to nine years to life in prison.
Luchiano Lewis pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and first-degree robbery last month and had the maximum sentence handed down Thursday.
"The defendant has demonstrated in the year and a half since this incident "this is not an aberration," the judge said, according to NBC New York. "The defendant has learned no lessons from his experience in this case."
Majors, a first-year Barnard student from Virginia, was heading down a set of stairs in Morningside Park when the boys tried to mug her, prosecutors said.
She was fatally stabbed after she resisted, according to prosecutors.
The New York Post previously reported that the boy was cooperating with prosecutors against another 16-year-old boy, who is accused of stabbing Majors.
A third defendant, who was 13 at the time of Majors’ death, was sentenced to 18 months in juvenile detention after pleading guilty to first-degree robbery last year.
Majors’ family was in court Thursday to give victim impact statements. The statement said the family's loss is "profound and indescribable."
"On December 11, 2019, the hopes and dreams for our daughter Tess came to a tragic end. Nearly two years later, we still find words inadequate to describe the immeasurable pain, trauma, and suffering that our family has endured since her senseless murder," the statement said.
Majors' parents described their daughter as a "brilliant student, a voracious reader, a poet and a fledgling journalist."
Lewis spoke before the sentencing, and said he was ashamed of what he did, apologizing to Majors' father, who then began sobbing.
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