HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – A Hartford Superior Court judge on Thursday kept bail at $5 million for a Connecticut National Guardsman accused of killing a woman and her co-worker just before shipping out to Afghanistan.

Prosecutors asked that the bond for Steven Debow, 20, be increased to $7 million. His next appearance is scheduled for Feb. 7.

Dozens of relatives of Elizabeth Morel, who was gunned down in a North End grocery store on Jan. 5, gathered at the court for Debow’s arraignment.

Debow, of Hartford, was brought back to Connecticut on Wednesday from North Carolina, where he’d been training at Fort Bragg with the New Haven-based 102nd Infantry Battalion. The unit has not yet left for Afghanistan.

He faces capital felony and murder charges in connection with the shooting at Elizabeth Grocery that killed Morel, 26, and Enrique Perez, 39. Capital felony carries the possibility of the death penalty.

Morel’s cousin, Carmen Garcia, was among family members who gathered at the courthouse Thursday. Some wore shirts with pictures of Morel on her wedding day.

“We’re united as a family and in our hearts what we want is justice for them,” she said. “We’re a humble family. We don’t wish harm and we don’t do harm but we want justice.”

The Elizabeth grocery slayings occurred the same night that more than 500 members of the 102nd were being honored at a send-off ceremony in New Haven. Debow did not attend.

A day before the shootings, state prosecutors decided to stop pursuing a weapon charge against Debow to allow him to serve in Afghanistan.

Hartford police arrested Debow last August on a charge of carrying a pistol without a permit. He was released from custody Dec. 1.

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