One of the three teenagers charged in the stabbing death of a college student in New York pleaded guilty to robbery.
The teen had been arrested just days after the December 11 killing of 18-year-old Tessa Majors in a Manhattan park, and initially faced a murder charge before pleading to robbery.
The boy, 13 years old at the time, told detectives he was at the park with other young people but wasn't the one who stabbed Majors, who was a student at Barnard College in Manhattan. His name was withheld because he was being tried as a juvenile.
The Legal Aid Society, which represented the now-14-year-old, said in a statement that the robbery plea "is consistent with our client's limited role in this tragic event.
He did not touch Ms. Majors or take any of her property. Furthermore, no DNA evidence exists linking him to the events."
Ms Majors was attacked as she walked through Morningside Park in Manhattan in the early evening on December 11 last year.
She staggered up a flight of stairs to street level and collapsed in a crosswalk. A responding officer previously testified about finding Ms Majors on the ground, bleeding and struggling to breathe.
In February, Rashaun Weaver, 14, was arrested and charged as an adult with robbery and murder.
Investigators say his DNA was discovered beneath Ms Majors' fingernails.Another teenager,
Luciano Lewis, 14, handed himself in to police four days later and charged with the same offences.
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