PHOENIX (AP) - The Latest on the arraignment of a man charged with serial killings in Phoenix (all times local):
9:25 a.m.
A judge entered not-guilty pleas for a man charged with nine serial slayings in Phoenix.
Defense attorneys for 23-year-old Aaron Juan Saucedo waived his presence in the courtroom for his arraignment Thursday.
Saucedo was indicted last week on charges of fatally shooting nine people and wounding two others during a nearly one-year period ending in July 2016.
News media attorney David Bodney said Saucedo’s lawyers waived the defendant’s presence after Commissioner Thomas Kaipio of Maricopa County Superior Court granted a media request to allow a camera in the courtroom.
Kaipio considered the request during a brief closed-door hearing before Saucedo’s arraignment.
Saucedo proclaimed during a court hearing in May that he was innocent.
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1:50 a.m.
A man accused of carrying out serial killings in Phoenix is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday on nine murder charges.
Twenty-three-year-old Aaron Juan Saucedo was indicted last week for fatally shooting nine people and wounding two others during a nearly one-year period that ended in July 2016. Saucedo is expected to enter a plea at the court hearing.
Police have previously said that Saucedo left behind bullet casings at each crime that authorities tested and linked him to the shootings.
Saucedo proclaimed during a court hearing in May that he was innocent.
The attacks terrified people living in the Maryvale neighborhood of Phoenix, a mostly Latino community where all but two of the killings occurred. Residents stayed indoors at night amid the height of fear over the killings last summer.
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