Teen killer Aiden Fucci jailed for life after stabbing 13-year-old cheerleader 114 times as judge condemns his twisted ‘desire to feel what it was like to kill’
- Teen killer Aiden Fucci, 16, who stabbed cheerleader and 13-year-old schoolmate Tristyn Bailey 114 times, has been sentenced to life in prison.
- Bailey was murdered in 2021 in the quiet wooded area of a Durbin Crossing neighborhood in St Johns, Florida.
- Circuit Judge R. Lee Smith said Bailey suffered a “painful and horrible death from someone he trusted.”
Teenage killer Aiden Fucci, 16, who stabbed 13-year-old cheerleader and schoolmate Tristyn Bailey 114 times, has been sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of his twisted “desire to feel what it was like to kill”.
Fucci, who was 14 at the time, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder admitting to the gruesome stabbing that took place at the end of a cul-de-sac in a quiet Durbin Crossing neighborhood in St Johns, Florida, in 2021.
Emotions ran high as Circuit Judge R. Lee Smith handed down the sentence: Bailey’s family could not hold back tears in court.
“Tristyn Bailey was conscious, she was conscious, and she was doing everything she could to defend against this attack,” he said.
“She suffered a painful and horrible death from someone she trusted.”
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Teenage killer Aiden Fucci, 16, who stabbed his 13-year-old schoolmate and cheerleader Tristyn Bailey 114 times, has been sentenced to life in prison.
