A Florida high schooler charged in the shocking homicide of a 13-year-old colleague, found dead close to a lake with many cut injuries, confessed to kill Monday.
It would have been the principal day of jury determination for his preliminary, court archives show, two years after an early court appearance where he supposedly muttered about evil spirits taking his spirit.
Tristyn Bailey, a team promoter at Loyalist Oaks Foundation, was most recently seen on reconnaissance video strolling with her executioner, Aiden Fucci, on May 9, 2021 in St. Johns Region.
He additionally went to the school.
After an hour, a similar camera caught Fucci leaving alone.
Fucci, who was 14 at the time and charged as an adult, changed his plea on the same day jury selection was scheduled to begin in his murder trial. Despite his youth, he was listed at the time of his arrest as 5 feet, 11 inches tall and weighing 180 pounds.
Shortly after arriving for jury selection in a first-degree murder trial Monday morning, Fucci’s defense entered the guilty plea.
Evidence against him includes more than 100 pages of emails from a school resource officer.
In one, obtained by WJXT-TV, the officer relayed Fucci’s friend claimed the slaying was “100% premeditated” and that the teen had spoken about wanting to kill something in the woods.
Police later found her remaining parts with 114 cut injuries and a piece of the deadly weapon severed in her skull, as per specialists. Her body was around .
3 miles from Fucci’s home, as per the police report. They found the remainder of the blade dumped in a lake close by and captured the suspect on May 10.
At the point when they addressed Fucci, he offered changing stories and in the end conceded to having been with Tristyn the night she disappeared and getting into a contention with her, court records show.
Fucci told police he pushed her to the ground and left. At the point when they served a court order on his room, they found garments like what he was seen wearing in the observation video – with blood on them.
Fucci, who was 14 at the time and charged as an adult, changed his plea on the same day jury selection was scheduled to begin in his murder trial.
Despite his youth, he was listed at the time of his arrest as 5 feet, 11 inches tall and weighing 180 pounds.
Shortly after arriving for jury selection in a first-degree murder trial Monday morning, Fucci’s defense entered the guilty plea.
Evidence against him includes more than 100 pages of emails from a school resource officer.
In one, obtained by WJXT-TV, the officer relayed Fucci’s friend claimed the slaying was “100% premeditated” and that the teen had spoken about wanting to kill something in the woods.