An Orange County judge refused to issue a bond to one of the two suspects in the murder of a UNC professor.

Troy Arrington Jr. appeared before Superior Court Judge Allen Baddour on Wednesday requesting that a bond be issued as he awaits trial on first-degree murder charges in the death of UNC Professor Feng Liu.

After hearing some details of the murder from District Attorney Jim Woodall, Baddour denied the request that a bond be issued.

“For the safety of the community, the nature of the charges, and the forecast of the state’s evidence all support the finding that no bond be set,” said Baddour.

Arrington and Derick Davis II are both charged with first-degree murder in the case.

Woodall presented Baddour with facts from the day of the murder on July 23, 2014. Woodall says that a Chapel Hill town worker saw Liu lying on the ground and saw two men standing beside Liu, but not offering aide. That worker took a photo of the two men with his cell phone.

Liu died at the hospital several hours later and Chapel Hill police officers used those cell phone photos to find Davis and Arrington.

Woodall says that the officers then questioned the two men.

“Whenever they were talking to Mr. Davis, the first officer who encountered him said he saw him go behind a tree or a bush and thought he saw him throw something down,” said Woodall. “While they were talking to him they checked and they found four of Dr. Liu’s credit cards in that location.”

Woodall says that Davis claimed they found Liu already injured and that he came into possession of the credit cards because Arrington took them off of Liu.

Arrington told police that Davis had been the instigator of the crime, according to Woodall.

“They saw Dr. Liu walking, and that Mr. Davis said he was going to get him; that Mr. Davis picked up some kind of rock, bashed Dr. Liu in the head, and then took the credit cards and things from Dr. Liu,” Said Woodall.

Woodall says that within just a few minutes of the assault on Liu, both suspects purchased items with the stolen credit cards.

Davis was not present at the hearing. He had requested bond early on in the days immediately after the murder but was denied.

The next court date set at the hearing is July 21.