( CNN ) -- An Oklahoma judge entered not guilty pleas Monday for two men accused of killing three people in a shooting spree in a predominately African-American neighborhood in Tulsa this month , according to an attorney for one of the suspects . Jake England and Alvin Watts face murder and hate crime charges in connection with the April 6 shootings that also left two people wounded . They appeared before a judge via a video link from jail to hear the charges against them , said Clark Brewster , England 's attorney . Neither of the men , who are being held without bond , spoke . Watts was assigned a public defender , Brewster said . A preliminary hearing was scheduled for May 30 . Authorities say England and Watts went into a largely African-American section of Tulsa shortly after midnight and gunned down apparent strangers at four locations . Two men and one woman died after being shot in the chest , while two others were shot and survived . All the shooting victims are black . Police have identified Watts and England as white , though a probable cause affidavit released Friday noted England was co-owner of a truck that had Cherokee Nation license plates . England confessed to shooting three people , while Watts admitted to police that he shot the other two , both of them fatally , according to police documents . On Friday , Tulsa County District Attorney Tim Harris filed , against both men , three counts of first-degree murder tied to the deaths of Bobby Clark , 54 , Dannaer Fields , 49 , and William Terrell Allen , 31 . They also face two counts of shooting with intent to kill related to the two people who were wounded , according to the press release from the district attorney 's office . In addition , the men face five counts of malicious harassment . The district attorney notes that , according to Oklahoma law , that charge infers that a person has acted `` maliciously and with the specific intent to intimidate or harass another person because of that person 's race , color , religion , ancestry , national origin or disability . '' The charge is equivalent to a hate crime under Oklahoma law , according to Partners Against Hate , a joint project of the Anti-Defamation League , the Leadership Conference Education Fund and the Center for Preventing Hate nonprofit groups . If found guilty on the murder charges , England and Watts could be sentenced to death or to life in prison . The maximum sentence for each charge of shooting with intent to kill is life in prison . First Assistant District Attorney Doug Drummond said in a press release that the prosecution is likely to decide whether to seek the death penalty after the preliminary hearing is complete . CNN 's Carma Hassan contributed to this report .
Jake England and Alvin Watts face murder and hate crime charges . The two men were arrested in the early morning hours of July 10 after a police officer spotted them walking down an alley near their apartment complex on North Main Street in downtown St. Louis. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for May 30 .