Authorities have arrested and charged a Florida teenager in connection to a 13-year-old girl s death.
The St. Johns County Sheriff s Office said the two teens attended the same school.
A resident reportedly found Tristyn Bailey s body Sunday evening, hours after she was reported missing.
Florida police have arrested a teenage boy in connection to the death of a 13-year old girl whose body was found Sunday night after she was reported missing earlier that day.
The St. Johns County Sheriff s Office arrested a 14-year-old boy on second-degree murder charges in the death of Tristyn Bailey on Monday afternoon, according to WFTS. Insider is not naming the suspect because he is underage and authorities have not decided whether to try him as an adult.
14-year-old boy arrested in killing of Florida girl, 13, who disappeared Sunday morning
Updated May 10, 11:01 PM;
Posted May 10, 11:00 PM
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. A 14-year-old boy is in custody on a second-degree murder charge in the death of Tristyn Bailey, St. Johns County Sheriff Robert Hardwick said during a news conference Monday morning.
The suspect is being held at the Department of Juvenile Justice. He is an eighth-grader at Patriot Oaks Academy, the same school where Bailey, 13, attended seventh grade.
Hardwick said the investigation is in the “very beginning stages” and did not release any details related to Bailey’s death, including the cause of death or how Bailey and the suspect may have been linked.
Bailey was last seen around 1:15 a.m. Sunday at the Durbin Amenity Center in the northwest community of Durbin Crossing, authorities said. The sheriff s office deployed numerous resources and began searching the immediate area. Her body was located by a resident in a remote wooded area near a pond at around 6 p.m. Sunday, Hardwick said.
Bailey was found clothed but the medical examiner s office is still investigating the cause of death, Hardwick said.
The 14-year-old is the only suspect in the case at this time, however the investigation is still ongoing, according to Hardwick, adding that the sheriff s office was still in the process of interviewing potential witnesses and other sources.
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