MARINETTE (NBC 26) — In court Thursday afternoon a judge sets a cash bond of $500,000 for Tylor Birch, the man charged in connection to the drowning death of a 13-year-old boy in Marinette. Birch appeared in a Marinette County courtroom via Zoom from the Marinette County Jail on Thursday. He is charged with second-degree reckless homicide.

See Birch's first court appearance since his arrest in the video below: $500,000 cash bond set for man charged in death of 13-year-old

"I can't imagine something more serious than this," Judge James Morrison said in court. "A human life was lost in this activity."

Morrison honored the district attorney's request for the $500,000 bond, despite Birch (a former McDonald's employee) telling the judge he could only afford $5,000. If released on bond, th

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