WARREN — A Youngstown man who faces a capital murder charge in the Jan. 19 arson that killed a Warren G. Harding High School junior was arraigned Monday in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court.

Brendan Michael Daviduk, 28, of Manchester Avenue, who is being held without bond in the Trumbull County jail, was before Judge Sean O’Brien with his court-appointed attorneys Rhys Brendan Cartwright-Jones and Lou DeFabio.

O’Brien read aloud the charges against Daviduk, who is charged with two other people in the arson death of Chassidy Broadstone, 16.

Daviduk was indicted last Thursday in a special grand jury report on two counts of aggravated murder with an aggravating circumstance carrying the death penalty as a possible sentence. He also faces two counts of attempted aggravated murder, aggravated first-degree arson, aggravated second-degree arson, grand burglary and evidence tampering.

Through his lawyer DeFabio, Daviduk pleaded not guilty to the charges, and O’Brien continued the no-bond ruling.

The judge also declared the defendant indigent, which allowed for the court-appointed attorneys. DeFabio has experience in capital cases and he was tapped after Friday’s arraignment of one of Daviduk’s co-counsel.

The aggravating circumstances — other crimes were committed while the murder was taking place and the offenses were committed with prior calculation and planning — bring the case to the level of the death penalty, prosecutors say.

The fire at a Nevada Avenue NW home killed Broadstone, whose body was found in a second-floor bathroom. Two of her siblings escaped the fire by going through a window onto the porch roof and then jumping off.

Daviduk and his co-defendants, Patricia Zarlingo, 27, also of Manchester Avenue and Zackary Gurd, 23, of Youngstown, originally were charged in a prosecutor’s complaint after an extensive investigation led by Warren police detectives. The case was presented to a grand jury last week.

Zarlingo and Daviduk will appear again in O’Brien’s court for pretrial hearing March 1.

The third defendant, Gurd, is awaiting an extradition waiver hearing scheduled for Feb. 23 in a Virginia court.

Daviduk and Zarlingo were arrested at their home on Youngstown’s West Side on Feb. 1 when police noticed a U-Haul van in the driveway. Investigators later found that Gurd had fled the Mahoning Valley area on a Greyhound bus and headed south. U.S. marshals tracked Gurd to a bus station in Richmond, Va., and pursued him to Chester, Va., where he was later arrested.

According to police detectives, Gurd is believed to have started the fire after being caught on video carrying a gas can in the garage area of the Nevada Avenue NW home.

Video evidence also shows two people carrying items, a television and video game system, out of the Nevada home before the fire broke out. Firefighters said the fire started somewhere on the first floor and traces of gasoline were found at the point of origin.

There were several common children with the defendants and Chassidy’s family, and it is believed there was an ongoing feud between the parents over child support, police said.