Cops swarmed Harlem Monday searching for a teen sought for questioning in the slaying of Barnard College student Tessa Majors, police told the Daily News.
The 14-year-old was being driven to the 26th Precinct, possibly by a relative or a lawyer, when he decided to make a run for it, police sources said.
The suspect, whose name has not been released, was last seen fleeing on W. 125th St. toward Eighth Ave. at about 4:15 p.m.
The NYPD descended on the area en masse, searching with helicopters for about three hours, sources told The News.
Police search for the teen at West 125th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard in Manhattan on Monday. (Gardiner Anderson/for New York Daily News)
Cops have been looking for a teenager who inflicted a fatal knife wound that pierced Majors’ heart.
Majors was jogging down steps in the park on W. 116th St. near Morningside Drive when at least three teens confronted her, and one stabbed her with a knife, said investigators who reviewed surveillance video.
A 13-year-old suspect, who the Daily News is not naming due to his age, was taken into custody Friday and faces felony murder, robbery and weapons charges. He was remanded to a juvenile detention center in the Bronx until his next court date.
A 14-year-old was released Saturday after being questioned by cops at the 26th Precinct in Harlem.