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		</div><h6><span style="color: #403232;">Tanaya Lewis, 19, pled no contest to first-degree murder on Wednesday at the Macomb County Circuit Court, in Detroit</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #403232;">Lewis took the plea deal during a pretrial conference under a guarantee she will be eligible for parole later in life </span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #403232;">Lewis was 17 when she stabbed 16-year-old Danyna Gibson in the upper chest and back with a steak knife on Sept. 12, 2018 at Warren Fitzgerald High School</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #403232;">The deal was made under a guarantee she will be eligible for parole later in life although </span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #403232;">Authorities say Lewis stabbed Gibson over a boy</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #403232;">While premeditation was established prosecutors declined to seek a life sentence without parole because of her young age at the time </span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #403232;">Her sentencing is set for September 16</span></h6>
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19-year-old Tanaya Lewis, pled no contest to first-degree murder on Wednesday in the stabbing death of her classmate during a school fight in 2018. She was 17 at the time. The victim was 16, both straight A students</h6>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">A 19-year-old woman has pled no contest to first-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of a classmate during a fight inside a Detroit-area high school, two years ago.<br />
Tanaya Lewis&#8217; plea Wednesday came during a pretrial conference in Macomb County Circuit Court and was made under a guarantee she will be eligible for parole later in life. Her sentencing is set for September 16.<br />
A no-contest plea is not an admission of guilt but is treated as such for sentencing.<br />
Lewis was 17 when 16-year-old Danyna Gibson was stabbed in the upper chest and back with a steak knife September 12, 2018 at Warren Fitzgerald High School. Witnesses told police Lewis smiled and laughed as she chased Gibson with the knife.<br />
<span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;">Authorities have said the fight was over a male student, and that both girls were straight-A students who had no history of trouble.</span></p>
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<h6 class="mol-para-with-font"><img class="alignnone wp-image-352960" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Danyna-Gibson-2.jpg" alt="Danyna Gibson 2" width="641" height="670" />Investigators say Lewis who was 17 when she stabbed 16-year-old Danyna Gibson [photo] in the upper chest and back with a steak knife, in a classroom fight over a boy in Sept. 12, 2018 at Detroit&#8217;s Warren Fitzgerald High School</h6>
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<h6 class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-352957" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Tanaya-Lewis-in-court-1.jpg" alt="Tanaya Lewis in court 1" width="686" height="501" /></span>Prosecutors declined to seek life without parole because of the defendant&#8217;s age and inability to appreciate the long-term consequences of her actions. She was 17 at the time she killed her classmate</h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">Defense attorney Mark Brown said the plea deal locks in Lewis&#8217; sentence.<br />
&#8216;It´s in her best interests to do this considering all of the circumstances,&#8217; he said. &#8216;It´s a horrible situation all the way around and this is a fair resolution.&#8217;<br />
Prosecutors declined to seek life without parole because of Lewis´ age and inability to appreciate the long-term consequences of her actions.<br />
&#8216;This was a calculated, thought-out, intentional event, but because she was 17 years old [she] lacked the frontal cortex development to fully recognize the long-term consequences,&#8217; Assistant Macomb Prosecutor William Cataldo explained.</p>
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<h6 class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-352969" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Tanaya-Lewis-5.jpg" alt="Tanaya Lewis 5" width="695" height="481" /></span>Detroit cops arrest 17-year-old Tanaya Lewis, after she stabbed her classmate to death in Sept 2018. Authorities say the Lewis stabbed 16-year-old Danyna Gibson over a boy <span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem; font-weight: 400;"> </span></h6>
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<h6 class="mol-para-with-font"><span style="color: var(--color-text); font-size: 1rem;"><img class="alignnone wp-image-352963" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Danyna-Gibson-3.jpg" alt="Danyna Gibson 3" width="754" height="1069" /></span>Victim: Straight-A student Danyna Gibson [photo], was member of the high school cross-country team before she was stabbed to death in school by a classmate. She was 16</h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">A major finding by investigators is that was a lot of premeditation involved in the slaying. Speaking in September, Macomb County prosecutor Eric Smith said: &#8216;Premeditation is abundant in this case, as simple as the fact that she brought a knife to school.<br />
&#8216;The defendant chased the victim throughout the class while this was going on&#8230; This was over something as simple as the victim being friends with a boy.&#8217;<br />
Warren police Det. Donald Seidl told a judge that other students reported Lewis smiling and laughing as she pursued Gibson.<br />
A teacher got Lewis out of the room, he said, but the girl tried to get back in, declaring, &#8216;I&#8217;m going to kill her.&#8217;</p>
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Former straight-A student pleads No Contest in fatal stabbing of her high school classmate in the chest and back with a steak knife during a fight over a boy – She was 17, her victim was 16
