New footage released in murder case against Aiden Fucci

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – New video was released Tuesday successful the murder lawsuit against Aiden Fucci, the St. Johns County teen charged successful the grisly slaying of schoolmate Tristyn Bailey.

The footage released arsenic portion of the find process includes 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.

Fucci, 14, is successful custody astatine the Duval County jailhouse portion helium awaits proceedings connected a complaint of first-degree execution successful the sidesplitting of Bailey, whose body was recovered connected Mother’s Day little than a half-mile from Fucci’s home.

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TIMELINE: The probe into Tristyn Bailey’s disappearance and death

The archetypal portion of video is simply 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.

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.

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Fucci’s mother, Crystal Smith, is charged with grounds tampering, a third-degree felony, successful transportation with the case.

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.

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.

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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.

New footage released successful execution lawsuit against Aiden Fucci

Bailey, 13, was reported missing by household May 9 earlier being recovered stabbed to decease 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.

The chief aesculapian examiner ruled Bailey’s decease a homicide caused by “sharp unit trauma by stabbing.”

State Attorney R.J. Larizza said the teen was stabbed 114 times. Larizza said 49 of the wounds were to Bailey’s hands, limb and head, and appeared “defensive successful nature.” He said the extremity of the weapon utilized to termination her was recovered by the aesculapian examiner wrong her body.

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“The bottommost enactment is that premeditation could beryllium inferred surely from conscionable the sheer fig of stab wounds that Tristyn Bailey had to suffer,” Larizza told reporters astatine a May quality conference.

The authorities lawyer besides said aggregate witnesses provided statements that Fucci had told radical helium planned to termination idiosyncratic by “taking them into the woods and stabbing them.”

“Which are surely the facts of this case,” Larizza added.

Investigators antecedently disclosed that they recovered DNA grounds from Fucci connected Bailey’s body. They besides said that Bailey’s DNA was recovered connected shoes belonging to Fucci that were located successful his bedroom.

Witnesses besides told investigators that the weapon believed to beryllium the execution limb looked identical to a weapon Fucci was known to carry.

Speaking to detectives, Fucci acknowledged walking with Bailey and getting into an statement with her, according to his apprehension warrant affidavit. The affidavit said helium admitted that helium “forcefully pushed the unfortunate to the ground, causing her caput to onslaught the ground.”

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The papers said Fucci’s communicative changed aggregate times, but noted that helium made respective admissions.

Fucci and his parent are some scheduled to person pretrial hearings connected Sept. 1.

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