Fernando Jimenez is charged with murder and attempted murder after the shooting of the Somers family.

Fernando Jimenez, suspected of killing two teenage boys (one fatally) and the boys’ mother, was charged Tuesday night with second-degree murder and two counts of attempted second-degree murder.

During a brief arraignment in Somers Town Court, Jimenez, 40, limped slowly toward the defense table, wearing a blue jumpsuit and a cast on his left arm. Due to the seriousness of the charges, which also include criminal possession of a weapon, Jimenez did not have an immediate opportunity to enter a plea of ​​guilt or innocence.

At the hearing, Somers City Judge Michael McDermott ordered Jimenez held in jail pending trial. McDermott also issued two protective orders prohibiting Jimenez from contacting individuals associated with the case, but those individuals were not publicly named at Tuesday’s hearing.

The high-level charges carry the possibility of life in prison if Jimenez is convicted of one count of murder.

Tuesday’s hearing capped a tumultuous 24-hour period for the Somers community. Earlier in the day, officials named Michael Raimondi, a 10th-grade student at Somers High School, as the only person killed in the shooting. He was 15 years old.

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Michael’s brother Matthew, a 13-year-old high school student from the same area, was also shot and killed. The boys’ mother, 38, was also shot. She had not been named as of Tuesday evening. They were both taken to hospital and were determined early on to be in critical condition, although no updates were given on their health.

Hours after the Raimondi family was shot to death in their Baldwin Place home Monday night, police launched a massive manhunt to track down Jimenez. Residents of Somers were on edge for much of the day, and many local schools were placed on lockdown or security protocols changed in anticipation of his arrest. He was finally apprehended on Tuesday morning.

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Asher Stockler is a reporter for the USA Today Network in New York. You can email him at [email protected]. Contact him securely: [email protected].

This article originally appeared in the Rockland/Westchester Journal News: Suspect faces murder charge after shooting and killing Somers, New York mom and two boys