Confused-looking Aiden Fucci: ‘Demons are going to take my soul away’

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Before his regular pre-trial proceeding Wednesday was passed to Oct. 28, 14-year-old accused slayer Aiden Fucci appeared connected a video provender from the Duval County jailhouse wearing an orangish jumpsuit and a confused expression.

Fucci, the St. Johns County teen accused of sidesplitting his schoolmate Tristyn Bailey earlier this year, was led handcuffed into a country with a telephone truthful that helium could perceive the tribunal proceedings. He appeared frightened and looked astir the country with a confused, dazed expression.

A defender came into the room, took the telephone receiver disconnected the partition and handed it to Fucci, who flipped his agelong hairsbreadth backmost and continued looking disoriented arsenic helium held the receiver to his ear.

He past started rocking backmost and distant successful his seat, looking astir the country successful disorder and muttering. At 1 point, helium tin beryllium heard talking astir demons, saying “Please don’t fto the demons instrumentality my soul. The demons are going to instrumentality my psyche away.”

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Then helium asks, “What’s going on?”

Before saying successful a plaintive tone: “Why americium I here? I conscionable privation to speech to my ma and dad. What’s going on? What’s going on?”

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Fucci’s provender yet ended, his lawyer filed a speedy proceedings waiver, which astir defendants do, and the lawsuit was passed to Oct. 28.

A abstracted proceeding scheduled Wednesday for Crystal Smith, Fucci’s mother, was besides passed to the aforesaid date.

Fucci is charged with first-degree execution in the decease of 13-year-old Bailey, whose body was recovered connected Mother’s Day little than a half-mile from Fucci’s home. Fucci is successful custody astatine the Duval County jailhouse portion helium awaits trial.

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Smith is charged with grounds tampering, a third-degree felony, successful transportation with the case. She is accused of washing a brace of jeans that aboriginal tested affirmative for blood.

Wednesday’s scheduled pretrial hearings followed the merchandise of video footage that included 2 clips of surveillance video from Durbin Crossing, the subdivision wherever Fucci and Bailey lived, video from wrong Fucci’s location and respective clips that were uploaded to Snapchat.

The videos volition apt play a relation erstwhile these cases spell to trial.

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The archetypal portion of video released was a two-minute clip recorded from a neighbor’s location that shows 2 radical walking on the sidewalk successful the subdivision astir 12:15 a.m. May 9. The 2nd clip shows idiosyncratic moving unsocial successful the other absorption implicit an hr later.

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New Footage Released In Fucci Murder Case

Those clips look to backmost up the apprehension warrant for Fucci, which said surveillance video showed 2 people, believed to beryllium the teens, walking eastbound connected Saddlestone Drive successful the aboriginal greeting hours of May 9 earlier 1 was aboriginal seen heading westbound connected the aforesaid street.

A 16-minute clip appears to person been recorded connected a surveillance camera wrong Fucci’s home. At 1 point, the video shows a pistillate moving upstairs and picking up immoderate apparel from a room, including a brace of jeans, earlier doing thing to them off-camera.

According to charging documents, Smith is accused of washing her son’s bluish jeans portion helium was being questioned astir Bailey’s disappearance. Investigators said the jeans tested affirmative for the beingness of blood, contempt efforts to cleanable them.

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Other footage released includes 3 clips of cellphone video. The archetypal shows Fucci and a person successful the backmost of a patrol car. “Having amusive successful a (expletive) bull car,” Fucci tin beryllium heard saying. “What’s up guys? Tristyn if you (expletive) locomotion retired the damn…” earlier it cuts off.

The 2 different cellphone videos amusement Fucci concisely and the contents of a instrumentality enforcement officer’s trunk, which contains a firearm and tactical gear.

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Bailey, 13, was reported missing by household May 9 earlier being recovered stabbed much than 100 times adjacent a pond successful the Durbin Crossing subdivision.

Fucci, who attended Patriot Oaks Academy with Bailey, was arrested a time aboriginal and is considered the lone fishy successful her murder. Based connected the circumstances progressive successful the case, Fucci volition beryllium tried arsenic an adult.

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