McAtee was charged and appeared in court on Thursday where he smirked and laughed.
It’s unclear if the boys’ mother Tina was at home at the time
He told the judge ‘I’m cranky today’.
The judge replied: ‘You’re going to make me cranky.’
After his bond was set at $1million, the teenager scoffed: ‘That’s ridiculous’.
On social media, the boys’ family shared their grief.
In a now deleted comment on a local newspaper’s Facebook page, the boy’s father wrote: ‘He’s a schizophrenic.
‘He used to be my baby’.
Others who attended school with him said he suffered mental health issues.
It is unclear who else was in the apartment with the two boys when Nate turned on his brother.
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