A 14-year-old boy is being charged as an adult in the fatal stabbing of a 13-year-old cheerleader whose body was found in the northeast Florida woods earlier this month.
The State Attorney's Office in St Johns County filed a notice Thursday to transfer Aiden Fucci's case from juvenile to adult court after a grand jury indicted him on a first-degree murder charge, according to court records. He faces a possible life sentence.
State Attorney RJ Larizza said during a news conference that charging Fucci as an adult wasn't only appropriate but the only choice his office could make. An autopsy discovered at least 114 stab wounds on Tristyn Bailey.
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"Every time that arm went back and every time that arm went down, that was premeditation," Larizza said.