EVEN 12-YEAR-OLDS CAN BE COLD BLOODED MURDERERS AND SHOULD BE SHOWN NO MERCY

Teen who slaughtered NYC student but got slap on the wrist is back in jail for heinous crimes

 

By Jack Toledo 

 

Daily Mail

Oct 26, 2025

 

 

Zyairr Davis, who was 13 at the time, was one of three teens arrested and charged in her death. 

 

A teenager who served little time in juvenile detention for helping stab a Barnard College freshman to death is now behind bars on Rikers Island after shooting at a crowd and biting the arm of a counselor while imprisoned.

Zyairr Davis was only 13 when he and Rashuan Weaver and Luciano Lewis, both 14 at the time, killed Tessa Majors when she tried to stop the trio from stealing her phone in Morningside Park in New York City at about 7pm on December 11, 2019.

Davis pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery after admitting to handing Weaver the blade that was used to stab the 18-year-old in the heart after the killer dropped it. 

He sentenced to just 18 months in juvenile detention in June of 2020 due to the Raise the Age law, which raised the age of criminal responsibility to 18 in most cases to keep kids out of jail.

Following Davis's release, he was charged with attempted murder and placed in Horizon Juvenile Detention Center and later moved to Rikers for biting a member of the Administration for Children’s Services adding additional assault and harassment charges.

Davis and two others had allegedly fired shots at a crowd in Harlem in April of 2023, according to the New York Post.

Reportedly, Davis, who was 16 at the time, fired shots in retaliation for the death of his friend Jaylen Duncan, who was killed an hour earlier by Messiah Nantwi, a member of the local gang, according to a Manhattan criminal complaint cited by the source.

Davis was at the scene of Duncan's murder and then headed toward the Lincoln Houses, a public housing complex, with the other two accomplices to grab a gun.

They returned to the area, which was only two blocks away from the original murder scene, and fired at a crowd standing on the corner, according to police.

 

Tessa Majors, 18, was stabbed to death after she tried to stop three boys from stealing her phone in Morningside Park in New York City at about 7pm on December 11, 2019

Rashuan Weaver [pictured] one of the three stabbed the freshman girl and was sentenced to 14 years to life

 

Davis was detained in the South Bronx and was arrested again while in detention center for an altercation with other detainees on September 17, 2023, in which, during the fight, he attacked a youth counselor, according to a Bronx Criminal Court complaint found by the outlet.

A video allegedly showed Davis biting the member with the Administration for Children’s Services on his right arm.

The ACS moved him to Rikers Island, according to the repeat offender's lawyer, Neville Mitchell.

The island prison is a facility for only those charged as adults.

His co-accused in Majors' death, Lewis and Weaver, were both charged as adults. The two were both given possible life sentences, with Weaver facing a minimum of 14 years and Lewis facing at least nine years. 

Lewis had Majors in a headlock as Weaver knifed the girl multiple times. Majors struggled up the outdoor steps to a nearby street where she was spotted by a campus security guard who called 911. 

 

Luciano Lewis had Majors in a headlock as Weaver knifed the girl. He was sentenced to serve nine years to life

Majors struggled up the outdoor steps to a nearby street where she was spotted by a campus security guard who called 911. She died from her injuries in hospital

Zyairr Davis, the third accomplice, got 18 months for the stabbing and was later sent to Rikers after a shooting and biting a staffer while in custody

 

She died from her injuries in hospital.

Mitchell, who is also an Independent Democratic write-in candidate for mayor, told The Post about her client: 'I don’t know that he got the help needed when he was there for 18 months.

'I’m not sure to what extent they can change what’s happened to this young man in the first 13 years of life. And then he comes out, and he goes right back into the community around the same sort of influences.'

On the other hand, retired NYPD Assistant Commissioner of Youth Services Kevin O’Connor said to the publication that the Raise the Age law was at fault.

The retired Assistant Commissioner added that the government is supposed to step in and provide justice despite a criminal's upbringing.