ARLINGTON, TX – A 16-year-old boy who confessed to fatally shooting a classmate at Arlington Lamar High School in March has been sentenced to 40 years in a juvenile justice center. The decision was reached by jurors after less than an hour of deliberation in the Tarrant County Juvenile Court, due to the defendant’s minor status. The teenager, who was 15 at the time of the incident, could have received a maximum sentence of 40 …
Aiden Fucci, now 16, was handed a life sentence on Friday for the brutal murder of his classmate, Tristyn Bailey, in May 2021. Fucci was only 14 years old when he stabbed Bailey 114 times in their St. Johns County neighborhood on Mother’s Day. The sentencing came after Fucci pleaded guilty to the murder charge before jury selection in February. The judge, visibly emotional, remarked that Tristyn suffered a horrifying and painful death at the …
A mother in Alabama filed a wrongful death lawsuit after her son, Tony Mitchell, was left naked and languishing in a concrete cell for days, leading to his death from hypothermia. The lawsuit accuses jail staff members of looking on and chatting outside his open cell door as he died, and of malicious abuse and deliberate indifference. The complaint was filed on Monday at the US District Court for Northern Alabama. The suit also alleges …