JONESBURO, March 26: Two boys accused of killing four girls and a teacher in a shooting spree at an Arkansas school on Wednesday were ordered held without bail to face multiple capital murder and battery charges.Their attorneys offered no arguments on their behalf and did not request their release in a brief hearing before juvenile court judge Ralph Wilson at the Craighead county justice center.The boys - Mitchell Johnson (13) and his 11-year-old cousin Andrew - were escorted before the judge behind a black blanket held up by police officers. Authorities set up a tight ring of security for fear of possible attacks against the suspects.Local reporters allowed into the hearing said the younger boy appeared calm and composed, but the 13-year-old sat with his head hanging down. He asked to speak with his father and wept while they huddled in a corner.Prosecutor Brent Davis presented an affidavit to Wilson outlining the evidence against the boys, but would not tell reporters what it contained. Hesaid the boys faced five counts of capital murder and 10 counts of battery.Authorities said the boys had fired 27 times with high-powered rifle and pistols at schoolmates they had lured outside with a false fire alarm. Their bullets struck 15 people, killing five of them. Six of the wounded were still in hospital, one of them in critical condition.Meanwhile, students of the school said one of the two boys had recently split up with his girlfriend and threatened to shoot her ``and kill everybody in the building.''The boys are believed to have lured students and teachers outside their classrooms at Westside middle school with a false fire alarm.``When the alarm went off, we went outside. They were out there waiting for us,'' said 11-year-old Kara Tate, a student at the school.Tate said Johnson had told several students on Monday that he was planning to shoot Candace Porter, one of the nine girls wounded in the rampage, because she had broken up with him.Other students also said Johnson hadmade threats but that no one took him seriously. ``Mitchell told us that tomorrow you will find out if you live or die,'' the Jonesboro Sun daily quoted 13-year-old Melinda Henson as saying.
