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Post by Graveyardbride on May 27, 2021 16:24:39 GMT -5
Aiden Fucci Charged with First Degree Murder, Will Be Tried as an Adult At a news conference this afternoon, State Attorney R.J. Larizza announced Aiden Fucci will be charged as an adult and the charge is premeditated first-degree murder. He said he made his decision after the medical examiner discovered Tristyn Bailley had been stabbed 114 times. “There were defensive wounds on this young lady and she was fighting for her life,” Larizza explained, adding 49 of the wounds were to the girl’s hands, arms and head.
He elaborated, saying the deadly encounter started with kids just hanging out, but at some point, Fucci told several friends he was going to take someone into the woods and stab him or her to death. No one reported Fucci’s remarks, most likely because they did not believe him.
The murder weapon was recovered by the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office near the pond where Tristyn’s body was found. The tip of the knife was broken and the medical examiner found the missing piece embedded in the girl’s scalp.
Larizza added that if Fucci is convicted and sentenced to life – he is too young for the death penalty – he will be eligible for a review when he reaches age 25 and because of his youth, would receive certain benefits/accommodations while incarcerated.
The state attorney ended the news conference by addressing the parents of all the teenagers involved, either directly or peripherally, in the incident: “I just want to say that I hope parents will learn something from this vicious and brutal murder. And that is you need to know what your kids are doing and what they’re saying. While we might not be able stop these vicious and brutal murders from happening, we ought to at least try.”Sources: WJXT, May 27, 2021; and Office of the State Attorney, Seventh Judicial Circuit of Florida.
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Post by jason on May 27, 2021 19:07:05 GMT -5
Damn! I never expected anything like this. I thought he tried it on with her, she refused, he lost his temper, they fought and he ended up stabbing her with a pocket knife. I would have never guessed he set out to kill someone that night. I'll bet his lawyers try an insanity defense because no sane person, even a crazy-assed 14-year-old, would do something that demented. He has to be completely unhinged.
BTW, that's a somewhat awkward headline, don't ya' think?
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Post by pat on May 27, 2021 19:27:42 GMT -5
After what has been said about people who live in McMansions, I'm somewhat reluctant to admit that a friend of mine's daughter and her family live in that subdivision not far from where Aiden Fucci lives. They have kids who go to Patriot Oaks, but they wouldn't let them hang out with Fucci and the other potheads. They said that he smoked so much pot that he smelled like weed and he had even been sent home from school because of his strong marijuana smell. Some of the kids who did hang around him said that if he went more than a few hours without smoking pot, he would get angry and because he was big for his age, he would bully other kids and had physically attacked a couple of other boys. After he was arrested, people at the juvenile facility said that a doctor diagnosed marijuana addiction and he was having such severe withdrawal symptoms that he had to be put on Ativan.
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Post by kitty on May 27, 2021 22:39:33 GMT -5
Damn! I never expected anything like this. I thought he tried it on with her, she refused, he lost his temper, they fought and he ended up stabbing her with a pocket knife. I would have never guessed he set out to kill someone that night. I'll bet his lawyers try an insanity defense because no sane person, even a crazy-assed 14-year-old, would do something that demented. He has to be completely unhinged. BTW, that's a somewhat awkward headline, don't ya' think? I'm shocked, too. I thought, like you did, that it would turn out to be something like an attempted rape. It never even occurred to me that he lured her into the woods with the intention of killing her. Did he think he could kill someone and get away with it?
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Post by Graveyardbride on May 28, 2021 0:52:35 GMT -5
BTW, that's a somewhat awkward headline, don't ya' think?
I changed the headline.
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Post by ella on May 28, 2021 12:04:45 GMT -5
I found some info online that showed Crystal was married to Michael Akel but doesn't show that they were divorced - interesting thing here is that M Akel IS RELATED to Anwar Snobar, who pulled out as council. Since she is considered indigent ( I dont understand with huge house shes living in) did she & Akel just get separated, or are divorcing now... I just thought it was curious that in my Google search it showed that Michael Akel, who is married to Crystal Smith, ( mother of Aidan) is a relative of Anwar snobar the attorney
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Post by ella on May 28, 2021 12:15:24 GMT -5
o m g. Pre- meditated first degree murder is very different charge than the previous second degree murder charge he faced. What in Gods name went wrong in this kids life that instead of (playing in park, video games, fishing, he had a swimming pool as well) he feels like he "wants to stab someone to death in the woods" - wtf. something terrible was going on in this kids life, . Before his grandmother Deborah Sparks took her Facebook down it showed that all of his role models are scary thugs and drug dealers. There was a pic of Aidan a few years younger with his cousins and the boy looked furious - very weird for kid his age, he looked downright menacing. I'd like to know about this kids upbringing.
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Post by Graveyardbride on May 28, 2021 12:51:16 GMT -5
I found some info online that showed Crystal was married to Michael Akel but doesn't show that they were divorced - interesting thing here is that M Akel IS RELATED to Anwar Snobar, who pulled out as council. Since she is considered indigent ( I dont understand with huge house shes living in) did she & Akel just get separated, or are divorcing now... I just thought it was curious that in my Google search it showed that Michael Akel, who is married to Crystal Smith, ( mother of Aidan) is a relative of Anwar snobar the attorney Snober was retained to handle the preliminaries. He’s something of a jack-of-all-trades and the majority of his practice consists of divorces, adoptions, child support issues and minor criminal matters such as DUIs. His firm isn’t really qualified to handle a high-profile murder case. Akel and Smith purchased the house less than six months ago, so there would be no equity to consider and Smith has very little money of her own.
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Post by jane on May 28, 2021 14:00:03 GMT -5
o m g. Pre- meditated first degree murder is very different charge than the previous second degree murder charge he faced. What in Gods name went wrong in this kids life that instead of (playing in park, video games, fishing, he had a swimming pool as well) he feels like he "wants to stab someone to death in the woods" - wtf. something terrible was going on in this kids life, . Before his grandmother Deborah Sparks took her Facebook down it showed that all of his role models are scary thugs and drug dealers. There was a pic of Aidan a few years younger with his cousins and the boy looked furious - very weird for kid his age, he looked downright menacing. I'd like to know about this kids upbringing. A friend of mine has a granddaughter in the 8th grade at Patriot Oaks and the girl said that Aiden Fucci always gave her the creeps and she tried to avoid him and his weird friends. People around St. Augustine are also saying that Crystal Smith and Forrest and Stacey Bailey were all overly permissive parents who didn’t supervise their children. The Baileys apparently allowed their daughter to dress provocatively and boys made nasty comments about her. Even after she was murdered, they were still joking about how she dressed.
I know people today want to believe monsters are made, not born, but that’s not always true. This kid’s parents were too permissive, but so are a lot of parents today. People in the past, before society was blamed for everything, realized that sometimes there’s something wrong with a child when he’s born, that he’s a “bad seed,” and from what I’ve heard, this boy has never been what passes for “normal.”
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Post by Graveyardbride on May 28, 2021 14:57:09 GMT -5
Aiden Fucci Appears in Court Following Upgraded ChargeAiden Fucci appeared in court today for the first time since State Attorney R.J. Larizza announced the 14-year-old would be charged with first-degree murder and tried as an adult. He was represented by public defender Rosemarie Peoples, and Jason Lewis appeared for the State of Florida.
During the procedural hearing, Judge Howard M. Maltz informed Fucci of his rights, the charges against him and that he would be detained without bail.
Fucci, formerly held in a juvenile detention facility in Daytona Beach, has been transferred to the Duval County Pretrial Detention Center in Jacksonville, where there is space for juvenile defendants. Sheriff Rob Hardwick thanked Duval County Sheriff Mike Williams for agreeing to accept the defendant. Fucci’s public defender is expected to challenge the no-bond issue at a later date.Sources: WJCT, May 28, 2021; and Clerk of Court, Seventh Judicial Circuit, St. Johns County, Florida.
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Post by pat on May 28, 2021 20:30:57 GMT -5
This afternoon I heard that some of Fucci's crazy friends are acting like he did something remarkable, something that makes him worthy of their admiration. I'll bet it won't be long before teenage girls (and probably boys as well) start writing to him in jail like they do Nickolas Cruz, the Parkland shooter.
I've also heard that he was still delusional and having hallucinations from the marijuana withdrawal when he was transferred to Jacksonville and that he's so weird that a lot of the other kids in the juvenile facility where he is now are afraid of him.
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Post by Graveyardbride on Jun 3, 2021 16:57:32 GMT -5
Aiden Fucci Pleads Not Guilty
This morning (June 3), the public defender representing Aiden Fucci filed a written plea of not guilty on behalf of 14-year-old Aiden Fucci. This cancels his arraignment previously scheduled for June 10.
Fucci was originally charged with second-degree murder, but on May 27, State Attorney R.J. Larizza, citing the ferocity of the attack and Fucci’s having told friends he intended to kill someone, upped the charge to first degree murder and announced the teen would be tried as an adult.
Both Fucci, an 8th-grader, and Tristyn Bailey, who was in 7th grade, attended Patriot Oaks Academy, a school that serves approximately 1,500 students from kindergarten through 8th grade. According to its website, Patriot Oaks “fosters character development, independence and a lifelong love of learning.”
At this time, it isn’t known why the 13-year-old girl agreed to accompany Fucci to the retention pond at the end of Saddlestone Drive. The two were caught on a resident’s home video camera walking along the street around 1:45 a.m., when they both should have been home. Tristyn was dressed in a black shirt and pants and Fucci appeared to be wearing shorts, a light-colored hooded sweatshirt and white shoes with a black Nike logo. Approximately an hour-and-a-half later, Fucci is seen returning alone, walking barefoot and carrying the white shoes.
Prior to today’s plea, Connie Stull, Tristyn Bailey’s cousin, said she hoped Fucci would come clean and admit what he had done. “I looked him [Aiden] up on Facebook, but there are too many,” she continued. “Tristyn was a sweetheart. She loved cheerleading, I’m an emotional wreck ....”
Sources: WTLV, June 3, 2021; Clerk of Court, Seventh Judicial Circuit, St. Johns County, Florida; and local gossip.
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Post by Kate on Jun 4, 2021 17:48:07 GMT -5
I'll bet his lawyer is planning an insanity defense.
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Post by Graveyardbride on Jun 5, 2021 22:27:53 GMT -5
Fucci’s Mother Arrested for Tampering with EvidenceToday (June 5), Crystal Lane Smith (above), 35, mother of Aiden Fucci, was arrested on a charge of tampering with evidence, a third-degree felony. She was officially booked into the St. Johns County Pretrial Detention Center in St. Augustine at 12:12 p.m. and released on $25,000 bond at 1:40.
According to the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office, video surveillance inside Smith’s home at 724 Castledale Drive shows Smith going into her son’s bedroom after he was taken by deputies and retrieving a pair of blue jeans, scrubbing them and returning them to the bedroom. When deputies returned, they confiscated the damp jeans and later, both the jeans and a drain in the home tested positive for blood.
Although it was originally reported that Fucci was wearing shorts in the video footage showing him walking with Tristyn Bailey toward the end of Saddlestone Drive, apparently, he was wearing blue jeans.
Following Smith’s arrest, Sheriff Bob Hardwick issued a statement saying, “I remain incredibly proud of the men and women of the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office for their continued thoroughness in this investigation. Crystal Smith will be held responsible for her role in this case and justice will be served for Tristyn Bailey and her family.”
“Tampering with evidence is tampering with justice and cannot be excused or tolerated,” State Attorney R.J. Larizza added in a news release. Sources: St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office, St. Augustine, Florida; WTLV, June 5, 2021; and WJXT, June 5, 2021.
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Post by pat on Jun 6, 2021 18:53:02 GMT -5
I just noticed this at the end of one of the earlier articles. That kid is almost 6-feet tall and weighs almost 200 pounds!
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