COLLINSVILLE -- Two 17-year-olds who took part in what a prosecutor called "a drug deal gone hideously bad" each had two charges of felony murder certified to a grand jury Friday in Henry County General District Court.

Shortly after 1 a.m. on June 23, a Henry County deputy went to a home at Ridgecrest Trailer Park in Collinsville after receiving a 911 call about a disturbance in which someone had been thrown out a window.

Inside the trailer, Deputy Troy Easter found one man dying and two already dead. One of the dead, Gabriel Rene Rogel-Mirafuentes, lay in a bedroom. The other, Martin Cardecas, also known as Filiberto Martin Loredo-Morales, lay in the hallway, partway in the living room. The third man, near the back door, Rafael Torres-Sanchez, also known as Jose Martin Perez-Lopez, died soon after he was taken to a hospital. All three men had been shot.

At Friday's preliminary hearing, Judge Morgan Armstrong certified multiple felony charges against Carl Deshawn Turner and Anthony O. Eggleston to be considered by a grand jury in Henry County Circuit Court.

If the grand jury indicts them, each teenager would face trial as an adult on two counts of felony murder, one count of possession of a firearm as a violent felon, one count of using a firearm in a felony and one count of conspiracy to possess cocaine.

Each also had an additional murder count dismissed. Armstrong ruled that Henry County Commonwealth's Attorney Bob Bushnell had not provided sufficient evidence to prove Torres-Sanchez's gunshot wounds were the cause of his death.

Bushnell said after the hearing that he would seek to have the grand jury reinstate those charges.

Two adults also face charges in the triple homicide. Maurice Pritchett, 32, and Jordan Stockton, 31, have already been indicted by a grand jury on three counts of felony murder, three counts of using a firearm in a felony and one count each of possession of a firearm by a felon and conspiracy to possess cocaine.

During the contentious and sometimes confusing five-hour hearing, Turner's attorney, Perry Harrold, and Eggleston's attorney, David Furrow, both questioned whether authorities had actually been successful in conclusively identifying the homicide victims.

All the details of what led to the killing came from Pritchett, who testified for the prosecution in the hearing. Pritchett, who had been released from prison the month before the shooting, said he and Stockton were looking to buy some cocaine to resell. The day of the shooting, Stockton made an arrangement to meet with a seller.

According to Pritchett, he and Stockton rode in Eggleston's father's jeep while Eggleston drove. Turner joined them before they went to meet with the sellers in a fast food restaurant parking lot.

The four agreed that if the opportunity arose to steal the cocaine instead of paying for it, that was what they'd do, Pritchett said.

They met with the sellers, who Pritchett described in testimony as "Mexicans," and eventually agreed to go back together to the trailer. Based on Pritchett's description of events, he and Turner went inside the trailer with Rogel-Mirafuentes and Torres-Sanchez after Cardecas let them in. Turner, who had more than $500 Pritchett gave him for the purchase, went into the bedroom with Rogel-Mirafuentes.

Pritchett said he heard the two struggle in the bedroom. He pulled a gun and ordered Cardecas and Torres-Sanchez to lie in the floor. Peering through a hole in the bedroom door, he saw Turner and Rogel-Mirafuentes struggling with a gun. Then he heard shots. He looked in to see Rogel-Mirafuentes lying in the floor.

According to Pritchett's testimony, Turner jumped out the bedroom window, rounded the trailer and came back in the front door holding a gun, followed by Eggleston. Pritchett said that he gave his gun to Eggleston at Eggleston's request and went out to the jeep. Once outside he heard gunshots. He said the two teenagers came out, and one of them said, "We had to kill everyone in there."

Pritchett took back his gun and discovered it had not been fired. Bushnell argued that Turner was the shooter of all three men.

The teenagers' attorneys expressed skepticism that Pritchett, a 32-year-old multiple felon, would defer all the decisions to be made in the situation to two 17-year-olds, especially because his money was being used to buy the drugs.