The judge scheduled the suspect's next hearing for May 24.
"I do expect we will try this case by the end of this year," Superior Court Judge Stephen Kelley told the attorneys at the end of a bond hearing Friday morning.
The judge denied Elkins' request for bond, saying he was concerned the suspect might flee if he was released.
Elkins' 78 yr. old great grandfather, McKinley Elkins, tried to assure the judge that if the teenager was released on bond he would be "a gentleman from this day forward."