Seven suspects, including six teenagers, pleaded not guilty this week to the kidnapping and killing of a 16-year-old Arizona boy who was brutally beaten in October, allegedly over a gold necklace.

Dominic Turner, 20, Taylor Reagan Sherman, 19, Treston John Billey, 18, William Owen Hines, 18, Jacob Ryan Meisner, 17, Talan Renner, 17, and Talyn Ray Vigil, 17, were all charged as adults with first-degree murder and kidnapping in connection with the death of 16-year-old Preston Lord, according to an announcement by the Queen Creek Police Department in Arizona and court records reviewed by HuffPost.