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.

Prosecutors plan to seek the execution of a man accused of shooting and killing four members of a family in rural Tennessee, including the parents of an infant found abandoned under the summer sun miles away,

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.