DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- The four suspects accused in the vicious beating and stabbing murders of six people were denied bond and appointed public defenders Monday during their first court appearance.

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Some relatives of the victims sat in the hearing as the defendants appeared before Volusia County Judge Mary Jane Henderson.

Troy Victorino, 27, (pictured, left) who investigators described as the ringleader, kept his head down during the hearing.

"I wanted to see this. I wanted to see who murdered my daughter," said Kay Shukwit, mother of 19-year-old Michelle Nathan. "I want to look at him."

The other defendants are Robert Cannon, Jerone Hunter, and Michael Salas, all 18. The four defendants have been charged with first-degree murder and armed burglary.

The teens confessed shortly after they were arrested Saturday, authorities said.

Police said the attack was the brutal culmination of an argument between Victorino, an ex-convict, and one of the victims, who is believed to be Erin Belanger, 22.

Investigators said Victorino organized the attack over his video game system, which had been removed from a vacant house belonging to Belanger's grandparents, where he and others had been squatting.

Also killed were Anthony Vega, 34; Roberto "Tito" Gonzalez, 28; Belanger's boyfriend, Francisco Ayo Roman, 30; and Jonathan Gleason, 18.

The killing spree in the working-class, bedroom community of more than 70,000 people was the deadliest in Florida since 1990, when a man whose car was repossessed shot eight people to death at a Jacksonville loan office before turning the gun on himself.

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