CLARKSVILLE, TN (CLARKSVILLE NOW) – A man accused of killing his elderly adopted parents in 2010 pleaded not guilty to murder Thursday morning.

In June, William Roger Campbell, 63, was indicted on two counts of first-degree murder in the 2010 shooting deaths of his adopted parents, William Campbell, 82, and his wife, 81-year-old Ina Campbell, according a news release from Clarksville Police Lt. Charles Gill.

He was extradited from Georgia on July 10 and booked into the Montgomery County Jail.

On Jan. 29, 2010, officers responded to the scene at 201 Jackson Road and found the couple shot in their beds, each with a single gunshot wound to the head.

Robert Nash will be prosecuting the case on behalf of the state, and public defender Charles Bloodworth will represent Campbell.

Grandson had waited for arrest

William Shawn Campbell, the accused man’s son, attended Thursday’s arraignment and told Clarksville Now that all the waiting for his father to be indicted was hurtful, and that he had long believed his father was responsible.

“All the sudden, out of the blue, I got a phone call on (July) 10 saying he had been arrested and extradited back up here,” he said.

He said that his grandparents loved their son.

“When (my grandparents) raised him, he could do no wrong. It didn’t matter what. … He’s been useless. I’ve seen him, maybe except for (today), 10 or 11 times in my entire life, but I was always close to them (my grandparents),” the younger Campbell said.

He said that toward the end of his grandparents’ lives, they had a falling out because William and Ina always supported their son no matter what he did.

“I still had love for them; they could call me and say, ‘Hey could you come do this, help me do that,’ and I’d be right there,” he told Clarksville Now.

He also said that the night that his grandparents were killed, he knew his father had done it.

“This ain’t about me, this is about them. They didn’t deserve that. Nobody deserves that,” he continued.

William Roger Campbell has another court hearing for a settlement consideration on Oct. 4.