College student, 18, is beaten and stabbed to death in savage mugging by a 'group of thugs' while walking in a park near her Manhattan campus
- Tessa Majors, 18, was attacked as she entered Morningside Park on the Upper West Side on Wednesday afternoon
- At 5.30pm, she was walking down a set of steps when the group of young men approached her
- They reportedly demanded money from her then stabbed her in the stomach and ran away
- She crawled to a nearby security booth but the guard was away doing rounds
- When he returned, she had lost consciousness and was later pronounced dead in the hospital
- Cops later visited a residence where they found a 'known robbery suspect', 16
- He had been seen earlier in the day wearing a green jacket; a witness from the park reported that one of Major's attackers was also in a green jacket
By JENNIFER SMITH FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
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