MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The 18 and 21-year-old suspects accused in an interstate shooting that left four children and a father severely injured appeared in court for a brief hearing on Thursday.

Kendrick Ray and co-defendant Lorenzo Watson both face a long list of charges including six counts of attempted first-degree murder.

Bond for both Ray and Watson was set at $1 million.

Ray entered a not-guilty plea at Thursday’s hearing concerning Tuesday’s shooting on I-240, and his attorney waived his request for a bail hearing.

Watson did not have an attorney or family present in court on Thursday.

Ray’s attorney Brandon Hall says his hearts go out to the victims but Ray still has his constitutional right to be defended.

“There’s also people that are at large in this case. You got to remember that, too. There’s an allegation that there’s several people involved in this,” said Hall.

He says eventually the case will have to determine who actually is responsible for the shooting. He mentioned that it is not clear who fired the gun.

“If you’re just a passenger in a vehicle, does it mean you’re guilty of committing a crime if another passenger in the vehicle decides to commit a crime? All that evidence will have to come to light in the later days,” Hall said.

The next court date is June 27, where Hall says they will proceed with more evidence on the case.

All of this comes after Shelby County District Attorney Steve Mulroy announced that he would seek to remove Ray’s bond.

Ray was out on $500 bond set by a judicial commissioner from a previous arrest in which he allegedly was in possession of a handgun with a Glock switch that made the gun fully automatic, Mulroy said.

Mulroy says Ray agreed to plead guilty to those charges and was due in court next month to enter that plea and hear his sentence.

He is also accused of a carjacking and assault on June 3.

“I have information that the state is going to file a motion to revoke bail on that matter. Generally, as a protective move, the judge will just go ahead and grant that motion initially and then we’ll be having a hearing on that later on down the road,” said Hall.

Hall also acknowledged that Ray has no record, which D.A. Mulroy attested to in a press release on Wednesday.

He said he represented Ray in the past regarding an encounter with the Scorpion Unit, but that case was dismissed. 

“It was a Scorpion Unit case where he was assaulted by police officers from that unit. So, that case was ultimately dismissed,” said Hall.

Ray will appear in court on Friday for the carjacking charges.

“Obviously Mr. Ray is a danger to the community and he needs to be kept off the streets,” Assistant Police Chief Don Crowe said Thursday.