The 13-year-old boy given a slap on the wrist in the infamous murder of Barnard College student Tessa Majors continued his life of violence after his release from juvenile detention — thanks to the Raise the Age law — adding an attempted murder and a vicious biting attack on a jail guard to his rap sheet, The Post has learned.
The boy, Zyairr Davis, and two older pals, Rashaun Weaver and Luciano Lewis, both 14, sent shockwaves across Gotham when they viciously descended on the college freshman as she strolled through Morningside Park at around 7 p.m. on Dec. 11, 2019.
Majors, 18, an aspiring punk-rock musician, fought like hell, biting Weaver in the finger and causing him to fly into a rage, stabbing her as feathers flew out of her down jacket. Davis admitted to picking up a knife dropped by Weaver and handing it back to him.
Lewis held Majors in a headlock, and Weaver repeatedly knifed her, piercing her heart and leaving her to die.
Because of Raise the Age, which was pushed by lefty lawmakers and raised the age of criminal responsibility to 18 in an attempt to keep children out of jail, Davis was tried in family court and received only 18 months in juvenile detention. The two other teens were charged as adults, with Weaver getting 14 years to life and Lewis nine years to life.
It’s not clear when Davis, who pled guilty to first-degree robbery, got out of lockup because juvenile records aren’t public, but by 2023 he was involved in another shocking crime.
This time, Davis and two new pals allegedly fired multiple shots into a crowd in Harlem on April 8. The shooting was apparent retaliation for the murder of Jaylen Duncan an hour earlier by Messiah Nantwi, a member of the local OTN Goodfellas gang, according to a Manhattan criminal complaint.
Davis, who was 16 at the time, ran from the murder scene to the Lincoln Houses to get a gun after the shooting, according to the complaint. He and two other teens then opened fire on a crowd about two blocks away from the Duncan murder scene, according to cops.
“Each aimed and fired multiple gunshots in the direction of the group of people standing on the southeast corner of Lenox Avenue and West 131st Street,” the complaint states.
Nantwi was arrested April 11, 2023, and charged with killing Duncan, police said. He died in prison this year.
Davis was locked up at the Horizon Juvenile Detention Center in the Mott Haven section of the South Bronx on an attempted murder charge.
He was arrested yet again after a fight with other detainees around 11 a.m. Sept. 17, according to a Bronx Criminal Court complaint.
During the brawl, he allegedly attacked a youth counselor with the Administration for Children’s Services, which runs the Horizon center, the complaint states.
Davis was caught on video biting the specialist “on the right arm” and charged with assault and harassment, records show.
ACS moved Davis to Rikers Island as a result of the incident, said his lawyer Neville Mitchell, an Independent Democratic write-in candidate for mayor.
“I don’t know that he got the help needed when he was there for 18 months,” Mitchell said.
“I’m not sure what to what extent they can change what’s happened to this young man in the first 13 years of life,” the lawyer said. “And then he comes out, and he goes right back into the community around the same sort of influences.”
Retired NYPD Assistant Commissioner of Youth Services Kevin O’Connor blamed the Raise the Age law.
“They always go back to ‘He was a poor kid who had a bad childhood,’” O’Connor said. “That’s not the victim’s problem. That’s where government is supposed to step in and do it’s job. You commit a murder you go to jail.”
Majors’ parents submitted a statement for Weaver’s trial, revealing that their daughter fought fiercely to keep her iPhone because it contained three years’ worth of songs she’d written.
They wrote that they have “no idea what it is to fight with three males — all of them larger than she — for over a minute, escaping two times only to be surrounded and targeted again.”
“They have no idea what it’s like to try and hail an Uber while sitting on a city bench after being stabbed. No idea what it is like to bleed to death on a New York City street in the presence of strangers,” the parents wrote in the statement, the last time they publicly addressed the crime.
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