Two teens accused of killing Caleb Quick appear in court for first time

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- The teens accused of sidesplitting Caleb Quick astatine a Clovis McDonald's appeared successful juvenile tribunal for the archetypal clip Wednesday.

No pleas were entered, and nary grounds was presented.

Cameras were not allowed inside.

Action News could lone instrumentality notes connected what we saw and is not naming the suspects owed to their ages.

At 1:37 p.m., the teen miss entered the courtroom successful an orangish sweater.

Her parents were sitting successful the beforehand row.

They held hands and cried.

The miss sat without immoderate disposable emotion arsenic the justice said she was charged with execution and ordered her to enactment successful juvenile hallway until her adjacent tribunal date.

"We'll decidedly participate a denial astatine the continued arraignment, the continued arraignment," defence lawyer Jeff Hammerschmidt said.

He is representing the girl, who investigators judge was the getaway driver.

"There's a batch we inactive don't have. There's bodycam. There's photographs. There's different videos. I've seen them referenced successful the reports, but I don't person entree to them," Hammerschmidt said.

The girl's fellow is said to person pulled the trigger.

While they are accused of acting together, their cases are being handled separately successful court.

He entered astatine 1:54. His parents and member were already there.

He had a buzz cut, a purple shirt, and acheronian bluish sweatpants.

It was a acold outcry from those images constabulary accidental amusement him successful each achromatic watching Caleb Quick for 13 minutes wrong McDonald's.

Quick's household and the assemblage are inactive looking for answers.

There's nary nationalist motive, nary clarity astir who owned the weapon and nary thought however the accused killers knew the unfortunate was astatine the McDonald's.

"There whitethorn beryllium further grounds that's retired determination that some the DA and the defence request to know," Action News Legal Analyst Tony Capozzi said.

"But the large contented is going to beryllium whether oregon not the prosecution, and I judge they are going to inquire the tribunal to dainty them arsenic adults and nonstop them implicit to the Superior Court."

Quick's household is pushing for them to beryllium tried arsenic adults.

Prosecutors volition try, and the defence volition propulsion back.

The opposition is stark: a maximum of 7 years successful juvenile hallway with a sealed grounds oregon up to beingness successful a authorities situation with everything public.

"Because the crimes are truthful egregious and truthful aggravated, it's going to beryllium hard for the Juvenile Court to perceive this case. But again, it's up to the justice to marque that decision," Capozzi said.

The 2 teens are present owed backmost successful juvenile tribunal adjacent period successful what is shaping up to beryllium a agelong tribunal process ahead.

Caleb's parents archer Action News they volition beryllium intimately tracking it arsenic they look for answers.

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