NEW YORK _ New York police have found the 14-year-old who sources say fatally stabbed Barnard College student Tessa Majors in Morningside Park, authorities said Thursday.
NYPD Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison on Thursday tweeted that the teen had "been located."
"Thank you to everyone who reached out with information," Harrison said. "This is an active and ongoing investigation."
The teen was found in the Bronx and brought to the 26th Precinct for questioning, police sources said. It was not immediately clear if the teen was with anyone when he was found.
Detectives believe the teen fatally stabbed Barnard College student Majors, 18, in a robbery gone wrong on Dec. 11, police sources said.
He was expected to turn himself in on Dec. 16, but instead went into hiding. His mother later told police that the teen jumped out of a car as he was en route to see detectives, a law enforcement official said.
The family has been uncooperative and it's not clear if the teen really was on his way to meet police that night, the official said.
A 13-year-old was taken into custody Dec. 12, and has been charged with murder, robbery and criminal possession of a weapon. He is now being held in a juvenile detention facility and will be prosecuted in family court.
Sources say detectives are in the process of getting DNA from the two captured teens to see if it can be linked to evidence recovered from Majors' body. A source said the Barnard student may have bit or scratched one of her attackers.
A third 14-year-old suspect was taken into custody Dec. 13, then released because detectives at that point had nothing to tie him to the crime other than a confession by the 13-year-old.
