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Florida teen pleads guilty to fatally stabbing classmate

Aiden Fucci is directed to his seat by his attorneys as he entered the Saint Johns County Courtroom of Judge R. Lee Smith, St. Augustine, Fla. The Florida teenager has pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing a 13-year-old classmate 114 times in 2021. Fucci entered the plea just before jury selection was scheduled to begin in his first-degree murder trial. Fucci was 14 at the time of the slaying. (Bob Self/The Florida Times-Union via AP) Stacy Bailey, the mother of Tristyn Bailey, hugs Assistant State Attorney Mark Johnson as Tristan's father, Forrest Bailey talks to Assistant State Attorney Jennifer Dutton at the conclusion of Monday's surprise plea deal in the murder of Stacy's daughter. Aiden Fucci pled guilty of first-degree murder with a minimum sentence of 40 years in prison. Jury selection was scheduled Monday, Feb. 6, 2023, in the Saint Johns County Courtroom of Judge R. Lee Smith for the first-degree murder trial of Aiden Fucci, 16 who is charged as an adult for the stabbing death of 13-year-old classmate Tristyn Bailey on May 9, 2021. (Bob Self/The Florida Times-Union via AP) Stacy Bailey, the mother of Tristyn Bailey leads her family out of the courtroom after the judge accepted Aiden Fucci's plea of Guilty in the murder of Tristyn. Jury selection was scheduled for Monday, Feb. 6, 2023, in the Saint Johns County Courtroom of Judge R. Lee Smith for the first-degree murder trial of Aiden Fucci, 16 who is charged as an adult for the stabbing death of 13-year-old classmate Tristyn Bailey on May 9, 2021. (Bob Self/The Florida Times-Union via AP) Aiden Fucci enters the courtroom Monday, Feb. 6, 2023, in the Saint Johns County Courtroom of Judge R. Lee Smith, St. Augustine, Fla. The Florida teenager has pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing a 13-year-old classmate 114 times in 2021. Fucci entered the plea just before jury selection was scheduled to begin in his first-degree murder trial. Fucci was 14 at the time of the slaying. (Bob Self/The Florida Times-Union via AP)
Florida teen pleads guilty to fatally stabbing classmate