This undated photo provided by the Anderson County Sheriff's Office shows William Hudson. Anderson County Sheriff Greg Taylor said Monday, Nov. 16, 2015, that Hudson was arrested and charged in relation to the weekend homicides of multiple people at a Texas campsite. (Anderson County Sheriff's Office via AP)

William Mitchell Hudson, 33, pleaded “not guilty” to three counts of capital murder during arraignment by District Judge Mark Calhoun last month in Anderson County.

In December, Hudson was indicted on the capital murder charges in connection with the deaths of Carl Johnson, 76; his daughter, Hannah Johnson, 40; his grandson, Kade, 6; Thomas Kamp, 45, and his two sons, Nathan, 23, and Austin, 21, at a campsite in Tennessee Colony.

Prosecutors indicated Hudson’s trial could be a year or more away, but they are working on a pretrial scheduling order.

The killings occurred in mid-November, when the Johnson and Kamp families were spending the weekend at a campsite Thomas Kamp had purchased from a relative of Hudson, adjacent to property owned by Hudson and his family.

Authorities found the bodies of Carl Johnson and his daughter in a travel trailer at the campsite and the other victims in a pond on Hudson’s property. All of the victims were shot to death, with the exception of Hannah Johnson, who was killed with blunt force to the body.

According to the indictments, Hudson, who lived next to the campsite, was drinking with the group before he accompanied four of them into the surrounding woods and shot them. The documents said Hudson returned alone to the campsite to kill Carl Johnson and his daughter in the trailer.

Cynthia Johnson, the wife of Carl Johnson and mother of Hannah, was the only survivor. Johnson reportedly hid from the assailant when she heard the shots in the woods then called the sheriff’s office to report the murders.

Hudson has been held without bond in the Anderson County Jail since his arrest. The Anderson County District Attorney is expected to seek the death penalty.