On December 11, 2019, Tessa Rane Majors was stabbed to death. She had been walking in a park near her college, where Rashaun Weaver, Luchiano Lewis, and a 13-year-old accomplice were looking for someone to rob. They attacked Tess from behind, putting the 18-year-old in a chokehold and searching her for valuables. When she screamed and struggled, one of them stabbed her several times. Tess's final moments were caught on surveillance video, which a prosecutor narrated during Luchiano's trial: "Here is the end of the brutal attack. She finally breaks away. She starts walking up the stairs. She's already been stabbed at least once in the heart. All the bleeding is internal... She is struggling now up the stairs. She has minutes left to live. She does not realize at this point why she is light-headed or why she's dizzy or why she can't walk or why she can't stand or why she's about to fall. And she will get to this lamp pole and collapse. And she will die — face down — on a dirty New York City street."