JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Aiden Fucci, who at 14 stabbed to death his classmate and friend Tristyn Bailey on Mother’s Day 2021 in their St. Johns County neighborhood, is in the process of a “routine transfer” to another correctional institution as he serves his life sentence.

The Florida Department of Corrections confirmed Fucci, now 18, was moved to the Reception and Medical Center West Unit in Lake Butler on Wednesday. He had been in the Suwannee Correctional Institution in Live Oak following his guilty plea on Feb. 6, 2023, and his sentencing that March.

“The Reception and Medical Center West Unit is committed to the rehabilitation of inmates and offers various programs, including educational courses, vocational training and substance abuse treatment programs,” according to department literature.

A staff representative at the Lake Butler facility said Fucci’s transfer is to a new program and not medical-related, but she could not say where he’s being sent until he gets there.

A corrections spokesman said the department’s offender listing for Fucci will be updated online once he’s resituated. He did not have details about the new assignment.

He did say his only disciplinary issue at Suwannee was on June 5, 2023, for fighting, but it didn’t carry any punitive measures or confinement. While awaiting trial in jail, Fucci had several documented cases of having problems with fellow inmates and staff.

Tristyn, 13, was reported missing by her family on May 9, 2021. Evidence revealed that she and Fucci had been at a friend’s home in their Durbin Crossing neighborhood and were last seen walking together about 1 a.m. that day. Seventeen hours later, her body was discovered in the woods nearby.

According to the Medical Examiner’s Office in court documents, she had 114 “stab or cutting wounds about her head, neck, shoulders, arms, hands and back.” Forty-nine of those wounds were deemed defensive by the medical examiner.

Friends said Fucci was known to have a fascination about knives and the prospect of killing someone, but it was never entirely revealed why Tristyn.

“Heinous, atrocious and cruel,” a crime orchestrated for no other reason than to feel what it’s like to kill someone, Judge. R. Lee Smith said during the sentencing. It wasn’t about greed, retaliation, revenge, rejection or some fit of uncontrollable anger, Smith said. “This crime had no motive.”

“It was done for no other reason than to satisfy this defendant’s internal desire to feel what it was like to kill someone,” the judge said.

This article was first published by our news partners at the Florida Times-Union.