Hamilton: Inmate indicted for 1st degree murder

Published 10:00 am Thursday, November 13, 2014

Incident occurred at Hamilton CI, Feb. 2012

On Oct. 28, Alexis Fajardo, 24, was returned to Hamilton County from where he was being housed at Florida State Prison in Raiford to face a grand jury indictment for first degree murder in the death of inmate Theodore Wallace, which occurred at Hamilton Correctional Institution (HCI) in February 2012. Fajardo was arraigned the following day, Oct. 29, and was then returned to Raiford where he awaits a court date on first degree murder charges.

According to the Third Judicial Circuit Court, grand jurors of Hamilton County on July 25, 2014, handed down an indictment charging that HCI inmate Fajardo, on or about Feb. 29, 2012, unlawfully and from a premeditated design killed Theodore Wallace by stabbing him in the chest with an ice pick styled weapon while in custody at the HCI Annex. The incident happened around 3 p.m. and Wallace was transported to a medical facility. By 6 p.m., Wallace was pronounced deceased.

On March 1, 2012, the Medical Examiner’s Office conducted an autopsy and determined the cause of death was ruled a homicide, and in July of this year the indictment was handed down.

Fajardo has an extensive criminal record dating back to 2008 in Miami that includes a home invasion robbery with a deadly weapon and attempted felony murder, as well as a racketeering charge in Hillsborough County.

The grand jury, on the same order from the Third Judicial Circuit, also indicted Felix A. Abreu, age 32, for aiding, abetting, encouraging or assisting Fajardo in the commission of the murder.