Florida Teen Pleads Guilty to Fatally Stabbing Classmate

Aiden Fucci enters the courtroom in the Saint Johns County Courtroom of Judge R. Lee Smith, St. Augustine, Fla., on Feb. 6, 2023. Bob Self/The Florida Times-Union via AP

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla.—A Florida teenager faces a possible life sentence after he pleaded guilty Monday to fatally stabbing a 13-year-old classmate 114 times and leaving her body in a wooded area near their homes in 2021.

The plea came as jury selection was scheduled to begin Monday morning in the first-degree murder trial of Aiden Fucci, who was 14 when Tristyn Bailey was killed, prosecutors said.