By Wilson Wong - NBC News
When he learned that his classmate had died, the 14-year-old now accused of stabbing cheerleader Tristyn Bailey more than 100 times in Florida appeared to offer a nonchalant response, authorities said.
"How is that my problem?" He allegedly asked, according to documents released Wednesday by the state attorney's office for the Seventh Circuit RJ Larizza.
Image of Trystin Bailey, killed after receiving 114 stab wounds Twitter from the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office
The suspect (whose identity is not disclosed as a minor) gave that response after being taken to an interrogation room at the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office, local Jacksonville station WTLV reported.
During the conversation with authorities, the teenager said that he had kissed Bailey, according to documents cited by the station.
She reacted by grabbing him, according to the suspect, and he, he added, pushed her.
Then he allegedly left after she fell and hit her head and got out of there.
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The aforementioned documents also add that the police found bloody clothes, sports shoes and a notebook full of "drawings of a violent nature" in the boy's bedroom, according to WTLV.
Among the haunting illustrations were a satanic symbol and a naked woman with red Xs across her breasts and genitals.
The drawings appeared to show blood oozing from various wounds.
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The suspect was taken into custody on May 10, the day after Bailey was found dead in a wooded area of St. Johns, a Jacksonville suburb, according to the sheriff's office.
Authorities said the young woman received 114 stab wounds, of which 49 appeared to have been inflicted on the hands, arms and head as she tried to defend herself.
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A knife, believed to belong to the suspect, was found in a pond near where the victim's body was, according to authorities.
The tip was "broken" and the missing part was recovered on the young woman's scalp.
The word
karma
was handwritten in blue ink on Bailey's left ankle and a smiley face drawn on the right, WTLV reported, citing information from the medical examiner.
The suspect is initially charged with one count of second-degree murder, but the state attorney announced in late May that he will be tried as an adult for a crime he called "horrible."
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"It gives me no pleasure to accuse a 14-year-old as an adult of murder in the first degree," he said then, "but I can also tell you that the executive team and I review all the facts, all the circumstances, the applicable law and not it was a difficult decision to make.
The teenager has pleaded not guilty.
The boy's mother, Crystal Smith, 35, turned herself in to police in early June on a tampering with evidence in St. Johns County and was released on a $ 25,000 bond, according to the office. the sheriff.
He also pleaded not guilty to the charge against him.
A surveillance camera inside Smith's home showed her washing a pair of her son's jeans that later tested positive for blood, according to an arrest warrant.
Traces of blood were also found in a sink drain.
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Before his arrest, the suspect posted a photo on Snapchat making a peace gesture in the back of a police car with the caption: "Hey guys, has anyone seen Tristyn lately? He took the selfie. when she was only considered a witness and Bailey was still missing.
The suspect had told friends that he "intended to kill someone" by taking him into the forest and stabbing him, authorities said.
