Criminal charges were filed Tuesday afternoon in that deadly overdose in the town of Konawa, earlier this month.

Stacy Jewell and Andrew Akerman died after taking a lethal dose of a designer drug that mimics LSD; six others were hospitalized.

Cody Weddle, 20, is being held without bond and now knows he's being charged with murder.

A punishment his supporters say is not fair, but one the victims' families say is very appropriate.

Family and friends of Weddle showed up to the Pontotoc County jail Tuesday wearing "Free Cody" and "Save Cody" shirts.

They were soon disappointed to hear what a judge told Weddle inside.

Weddle was charged with two counts of second-degree murder as well as conspiracy and distribution drug charges in connection with the overdose deaths of Jewell and her boyfriend, Akerman.

Court records show Weddle admitted to buying a synthetic drug, now identified as Bromo-Dragonfly, on-line.

He told authorities he mixed it at Jewell's house and had Akerman sell it at that party.

His supporters say the charges are too harsh because the deaths were unintentional.

"The first thing he told me was 'You know I'm not that kind of person. I didn't do this intentionally,'" recalled his friend Laura Artherholt, who visited Weddle at the jail. "You know, he didn't mean for any of this."

"Yeah, he bought the stuff. He didn't know what he was doing. He's a dumb kid," Weddle's brother in law said, Bobbie Gillespie. "I mean, I love him to death. But he didn't know what he was doing."

"He's not a mean guy," Weddle's friend Donavan Ortega, said. "Never had bad intentions towards anybody else. Never wanted anybody hurt, ever."

But Jewell's family and friends were wearing shirts with her picture on the front, too.

Her mother, Lida Beckman, says she knows Weddle didn't mean to hurt anybody, but says he should've taken the drug website warnings more seriously.

"It's just not right to test your friends," Beckman said. "Your friends aren't test dummies. Your friends are friends."

"I understand he didn't mean for this to happen, but regardless it happened," Jewell's friend Michaela Mayoral said, "Stacy and Andrew aren't coming back."

Weddle pleaded "not guilty" to the charges.

District Attorney Chris Ross says he filed second-degree murder charges instead of first-degree murder only because a "synthetic" drug is not classified as a controlled dangerous substance, such as cocaine or methamphetamines.

But he'd like the legislature to change that law.

Weddle is back in court June 30, for a preliminary hearing conference.

Authorities say others involved in that party may also be charged.