Not guilty pleas to nine murder charges have been entered for a man accused of carrying out serial killings in Phoenix.
A judge entered the pleas for 23-year-old Aaron Juan Saucedo after defense attorneys waived Saucedo's presence in the courtroom for his arraignment Thursday.
Saucedo was indicted last week on charges accusing him of fatally shooting nine people and wounding two others during a nearly one-year period that ended in July 2016.
News media attorney David Bodney said Saucedo's lawyers waived Saucedo's presence after Commissioner Thomas Kaipio of Maricopa County Superior Court granted a media request to allow a camera in the courtroom.
Kaipio considered the camera request during a brief closed-door hearing before Saucedo's arraignment.
Saucedo proclaimed during a court hearing in May that he was innocent.
