SPRINGFIELD -- A trial date of Sept. 8 has been set for for Jeffery Lovell, charged with manslaughter in the shooting death of a teen he believed was trying to break into his home.

Lovell, 43, was charged in connection with the July 16 fatal shooting of 15-year-old Dylan Francisco. He is now free on bail, which was set at $10,000 cash or $100,000 surety at an earlier arraignment.

He was in Hampden Superior Court Monday for a pretrial hearing, when the trial date was set in addition to a final pretrial conference on Aug. 10. In the courtroom were more than a dozen people wearing "Justice for Dylan" t-shirts.

Lovell is represented by Frank Flannery in the case prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Eduardo Velazquez.

There is no minimum mandatory sentence for manslaughter. Under state law a person convicted of manslaughter shall "be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than twenty years or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars and imprisonment in jail or a house of correction for not more than two and one half years."

Francisco, who was supposed to be entering his sophomore year at Chicopee Comprehensive High School, was with two other teens on July 16. They were planning to visit a friend on Boucher Circle.

But the three accidentally went to the wrong house, and began knocking on a door at Lovell's at 120 Boucher Circle home. Lovell's wife woke him up at about 1 p.m. and said someone was trying to break into their home, according to court records.

Lovell grabbed his handgun and looked through a kitchen window to see a teenager walking from the backyard toward the side door. The teenager started knocking on the glass of the locked door and said something Lovell said he could not understand, according to a statement in court records.

The door has three windows lined up vertically. The top window broke when the boy was knocking on it, said James Leydon, spokesman for Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni.

Lovell had called police but did not wait for officers to arrive. He shot Francisco through the bottom window pane, aiming for his torso, he told police in court records.

"Mr. Lovell told this party to 'get the f--k out' and 'stay the f--k out.' As the ... party continued to bang on the door Mr. Lovell stated that the window broke at which time Mr. Lovell raised his loaded S & W (Smith & Wesson) firearm and shot one round through the glass of the door," the police report states.

Court records did not explain what happened to the other teens during the shooting, but police said they were not injured.

Francisco was a quiet but sociable teenager who had made plenty of friends in his first year in high school and did well in his classes, Chicopee Comprehensive High School Principal Derek Morrison said in July.

"He was always respectful," Morrison said. "It is an absolute waste."