MOULTRIE, Ga. —  A Colquitt County man accused of fatally shooting five of his friends and then setting their house on fire is scheduled to make a second court appearance next month.

Sept. 18 is the date set by Superior Court Judge James E. Hardy for hearing motions in the capital murder case of Jeffrey Alan Peacock. Peacock, who has been jailed since his arrest in May 2016, made his only previous court appearance on May 30 of this year.

Peacock, 25, is accused of the fatal shooting of the residents of 505 Rossman Dairy Road on May 15, 2016.

Prosecutors announced in March that they plan to seek the death penalty against Peacock, the same month a Colquitt County Grand Jury indicted him  on five counts of malice murder and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. Peacock also was indicted on three counts of aggravated cruelty to dogs and arson.

Prosecutors say that Peacock shot Jonathan Garrett Edwards, Ramsey Jones Pidcock and Aaron Reid Williams, all 21; 20-year-old Alicia Brooke Norman; and Jordan Shane Croft, 22. The five were shot in the head inside their residence before their wood-frame house was set ablaze.

Peacock reportedly was one of three callers who notified Colquitt County E-911 on the morning of May 15, 2016, according to E-911 call logs.

Initial sheriff’s reports said that when a deputy arrived at the burning wood-frame house, located about five miles northeast of Moultrie, Peacock was at the scene. He told officers at that time that he had gone to get breakfast for his five friends living at the house and saw the smoke as he was returning.

Investigators immediately were suspicious that five healthy young adults would succumb to fire, and have said that an autopsy showed no smoke in their lungs — meaning they were dead before the fire started.

Two dogs also died of burns and smoke inhalation inside the residence, according to investigators, and the body of a third dog with a fractured head was found outside the house.

Peacock remains incarcerated at Colquitt County Jail and is being held on a $1 million bond.