Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Murder of Tessa Majors
The event occurred less than three months ago, so it's very difficult to judge whether coverage is  or not. I think the nom has a pretty good argument, and I wouldn't be surprised if, in the future, coverage did not remain SUSTAINED, and I might find myself a delete !voter. But if a three-month window is all there is to judge, while I didn't find any international coverage, the national news outlets like Time, People, LATimes, WaPo, USAToday, Fox, and NBC have covered this in December and in February, and some ran stories in January, some have run 4+ stories. I'm counting NYT as local media; the local media have been running regular updates. So it's not , and it's about as SUSTAINED as it can be. The reason why ''this'' particular killing is notable, Missing white woman syndrome is one explanation. Another is that this case is very reminiscent of the Central Park Five case, and that is a defining case in US cultural history (specifically race relations), ''especially'' in New York City, but really throughout the US. RSes have noted that connection, as does our article. Murders do happen every day in the US, it's true, but it's ''not'' every day that a white college student gets stabbed to death in a park a few blocks from a private women's liberal arts college, at 7:00 p.m., allegedly by a group of black teenagers in a robbery gone wrong. That really does not happen every day in the US. The killing happened in the Morningside Heights neighborhood, which is the border between the affluent, white Upper West Side neighborhood, and the very much less affluent, very less white Harlem neighborhood. This case involves class, race: allegedly, a group of poor black boys (teenagers) killed a rich white girl (18-year-old college student) while trying to rob her of her phone. It's a "hot button" story, and well-covered by national media, at least for now. I'm not sure if it'll pass the , it's just too soon to judge, so I say keep for now
— User:Levivich, 08:06, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:SUSTAINED||WP:LOCAL||WP:TENYEARTEST (Wikipedia:Notability)