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Jury selection was set to begin Monday in the trial of Aiden Fucci. He’s accused of killing 13-year-old Tristyn Bailey in May 2021. He pleaded guilty.
ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. — Aiden Fucci’s murder trial was set to begin Monday with jury selection. The St. Johns County teen is accused of murdering his 13 year old classmate Tristyn Bailey. He pleaded guilty to murder prior to jury selection. There will be no trial and sentencing will be scheduled at a later date.
Discovery deadline for sentencing information will be sometime in February. The deadline is 10 days from Monday. The judge orders a Pre Sentence Investigation and a Pre Disposition Report
Feb 23 at 9 am status hearing and at that point they will set a date for a sentencing hearing. Both sides agree 2 days will be needed
“I just want to say I plea guilty and I’m sorry for the Bailey family and my family,” he said
Tristyn was reported missing on May 9, 2021. Her family noticed she was missing when her siblings came to wake her up for Mother’s Day breakfast and discovered she was missing.
The last time her family saw her was shortly after midnight, but surveillance video had picked up video of what appeared to be Tristyn as late as 1:45 a.m.
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Police later determined she had been with a classmate named Doffs “Tre” Absher III and Fucci at Tre’s home before she disappeared.
By the evening of May 9, her body was found near a retention pond by a neighbor who was on a run in a wooded area.
State Attorney R.J. Larizza later revealed that Tristyn was found with 114 stab wounds. Many of them were defensive — “she was fighting for her life,” he said.
The tip of the knife was found by the medical examiner, lodged in Tristyn’s skull.
Her cause of death was ruled “sharp force trauma by stabbing.”
