A 14-year-old boy has been arrested on a second-degree murder charge in the death of Tristyn.
How did Tristyn Bailey die?
According to Chief Medical Examiner Predrag Bulic, the cause of Tristyn s death is sharp force trauma by stabbing. She also suffered head trauma. The manner of death is homicide.
Where was the victim found?
Tristyn s body was found Sunday evening, May 9, near a retention pond at the end of the cul-de-sac on Saddlestone Drive in the neighborhood in which she lived.
Who is the suspect charged in her death?
He is an eighth-grader at Patriot Oaks Academy, the same school where Tristyn attended seventh grade. Sheriff Rob Hardwick named the suspect, but The Times-Union does not routinely name juvenile suspects.
Woman whose daughter was found dead in Alabama cried to police
Updated Dec 10, 2020;
Posted Dec 09, 2020
Brianna Williams emotionally tells an officer her 5-year-old daughter is missing, as seen in the first of 168 Jacksonville Sheriff s Office bodycam videos released this week.TNS
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By Dan Scanlan The Florida Times-Union (TNS) and Tribune Media Services
The release of Jacksonville police bodycam videos is giving a first look at how an emotional Brianna Shontae Williams initially claimed her 5-year-old daughter was missing, kicking off an intensive 2019 door-to-door search for a child who was already buried in the Alabama woods.
Only days after many of those 168 bodycam videos were recorded on Nov. 6, 2019, of the search for Taylor Rose Williams, the 28-year-old mother was jailed on multiple charges connected to her apparent abuse before her discovery in a shallow grave over 400 miles away.
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