A Buffalo man has been charged in the deaths of his mother and ex-girlfriend.

Charles Jones was indicted on two counts of second-degree murder for the deaths of Jaquetta Lee on July 15 and Alethia Atwood on July 25.

Both women were stabbed to death. 

Jones, represented by Robert Cutting and Emily Trout, entered a not guilty plea.

Jones barricaded himself in an apartment on Jefferson Avenue last month. When he eventually surrendered to the Buffalo SWAT team, officers found the body of his mother, Atwood, in a closet inside the apartment.

At that time, he was charged with the death of his ex-girlfriend, Lee, 25, nearly a month after her body was found in her Main Street apartment.

If convicted, Jones faces a sentence of 50 years to life in prison.

Following his arrest on August 16, the Buffalo Police Department and the Erie County district attorney announced were once again interested in looking at Jones in the death of his 10-month-old daughter with Lee. Royalty Ava Lee-Jones was brought to a hospital with severe brain damage in May 2017 and died the following February.