A Jefferson County judge this morning granted a $1 million bond for the second teen charged with murder in last month's shooting death of a Hoover husband, father and Iraq war veteran.

But in granting the high bond for 17-year-old Ahmad Jaquan Johnson, the judge had a message.

"These cases do strongly concern this court ... This foolishness is going to stop. The people of the cutoff deserve better," Jefferson County Bessemer Cutoff Circuit Judge David Hobdy said.

A prosecutor this morning also told the judge that one of the guns taken off Johnson at his arrest matched a shell casing found at the scene of the Jan. 5 shooting death of Mike Gilotti outside his home in the Lake Cyrus community. A series of car break-ins had been reported in the area.

Johnson was indicted on one count of murder and nine counts of breaking and entering a vehicle. The nine breaking and entering charges also each carry a $15,000 bond, so Johnson would have to post a total of $1.35 million in bonds in order to be released from the Jefferson County Jail.

Johnson's co-defendant in the case, 16-year-old Charleston Wells, also was indicted on the same charges and Hobdy also has set $1.35 million in bond for Wells.

Assistant Jefferson County Bessemer Cutoff District Attorney Lane Tolbert told the judge that an arrest warrant from Alabaster also is pending against Johnson for a robbery in Shelby County. The bond on that charge will be $250,000, he said.

Assistant Jefferson County Bessemer Cutoff District Attorney Leslie Schiffman Moore also is prosecuting the case.

Johnson had been held in jail without a bond before today's hearing.

Johnson's attorney, Bret Gray, told Hobdy that Johnson was being illegally held without a bond. A bond is required for a murder charge, he said.

Gray told the judge that he was at a "significant disadvantage" at today's hearing because he had not yet seen any of the evidence prosecutors have collected. He said the case was quickly presented to grand jury, skipping the district court phase usually held in cases. So he did not have the opportunity to see evidence usually presented at a preliminary hearing in district court, Gray said.

Hobdy said he feels that Johnson and Wells do deserve some type of evidentiary hearing.

Hobdy also set April 27 to hear a request by Johnson for his request to be treated as a youthful offender.

Hobdy last week had set a hearing for April 26 on a motion by Wells' attorney, Charles Salvagio seeking youthful offender status for Wells.

If the motions were granted, Johnson and Wells would be tried as youthful offenders and the most they could be incarcerated for is three years. Their cases also would be sealed the same as juvenile records.

Salvagio also filed a motion last week seeking an evidentiary hearing so they could learn about the evidence prosecutors have against him since he too was indicted before a preliminary hearing could be held in district court.

Tolbert told the judge that he understood about the requirement for a bond. However, he said two guns were recovered from Johnson when he was arrested - 9mm and a .40 caliber pistols. The 9mm matches the 9mm shell casing recovered from the scene and testing on the .40 caliber was inconclusive as to whether it matched a .40 caliber shell casing also found at the scene.