HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, The Associated Press

A man charged with deliberately running down a Muslim teenager outside a Somali center has made his first court appearance.

Thirty-four-year-old Ahmed Aden, of Kansas City, appeared Monday in Jackson County Circuit Court where he is charged with first-degree murder, armed criminal action, leaving the scene of an accident and unlawful use of a weapon.

Prosecutors said he crashed Thursday evening into 15-year-old Abdisamad Sheikh-Hussein. The teen’s legs were nearly severed, and he died in a hospital.

Aden is being held on $250,000 bond. No attorney is listed for him in online court records.

Police said Monday that Aden was questioned in October after a vehicle with an anti-Islamic message on its back window crashed into another vehicle. Police said the case was dropped after the victims didn’t press charges.