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Tessa Majors Killing: Victim's Father Attends Hearing Of 13-Year-Old Suspect In Family Court

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- The father of a murdered Barnard College student appeared in court Tuesday.

Inman Majors attended the hearing of the 13-year-old boy accused of killing his daughter.

He did not comment as he left family court in lower Manhattan.

Eighteen-year-old Tessa Majors was stabbed to death in Morningside Park on Dec. 11.

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Police also questioned two 14-year-olds, but they were released without being charged.

The 13-year-old admitted to being in the park with two other teenagers, police say, but the teen says he was not the person who stabbed Tessa Majors.

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