ST. FRANCISVILLE (AP) — A state district judge has issued an order setting an April 30 trial for a teenager accused of killing an 8-year-old boy last year.

On Thursday, Judge William G. Carmichael also set a Dec. 8 hearing for any pre-trial motions that may be unresolved.

The Advocate reports 18-year-old Trevor Reese is accused of first-degree murder in the June 10, 2010, throat-slashing slaying of Jackson D. Attuso of Clinton.

The death penalty is not an option in the case because Reese was 16 when the boy was killed.

Carmichael is holding prosecution and defense attorneys to an informal order not to publicly discuss the case.

The victim was part of a group including his mother, brothers and family friends — all riding bicycles — when he was attacked.

A lawsuit filed by the victim’s parents against Reese’s parents and an unnamed insurance company also is pending in state court.

Craig and Monique Attuso’s petition for unspecified damages says Reese’s parents should have gotten treatment for their son because of his “declining mental condition.”

“The attack was foreseeable and preventable,” the lawsuit says.

Derek and Lisa Reese’s answer to the suit includes a denial that the couple had any knowledge of their son’s alleged “dangerous propensities.”

Trevor Reese was a student at Baton Rouge Magnet High School when the attack occurred.

Carmichael ruled earlier this year that Reese is competent to stand trial, but the ruling does not address his mental condition at the time of the slaying.

Defense attorney Lewis Unglesby entered a “not guilty by reason of insanity” plea on Reese’s behalf last year.

West Feliciana Parish sheriff’s deputies arrested Reese after he approached members of a construction crew in The Bluffs and told them to call 911 because he had stabbed someone, Sheriff J. Austin Daniel said after the slaying.