Drummond is charged with four counts of first-degree murder, as well as aggravated kidnapping and abandonment. The judge revealed that the four Tiptonville victims were found shot to death.

Austin Drummond, 28, appeared by video feed from jail before a judge, two days after he was arrested in the killings of the parents, grandmother and uncle of an infant found abandoned in a stranger’s yard in Tiptonville last Thursday.

Austin Drummond, the man at the center of a dayslong manhunt accused in a quadruple homicide in Tennessee, was arrested on Aug. 5. Drummond was wanted in connection with the killing of four people in Lake County on July 29. He was taken into custody by the Jackson Police Department, according to the Dyer County Sheriff's Office.