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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The teenager accused of fatally shooting a fellow student at a North Carolina high school appeared before a judge Tuesday as his public defender requested a low bond and permission for the boy to remain home with his mother while awaiting trial.

Jatwan Craig Cuffie, the ninth-grade student charged as an adult with first-degree murder in the death of Bobby McKeithen, 16, appeared in Mecklenburg County District Court.

Cuffie, 16, showed virtually no emotion as he listened to Judge David Strickland explain the charges he faces after the shooting a day earlier of Bobby McKei...