Supporters of a Bronx teenager who pleaded not guilty in a fatal school stabbing rallied opposite the victim's family Tuesday outside the Bronx Hall of Justice.

Police barricades kept the two groups apart.

"People over there they are protecting a murderer," one person said of Abel Cedeno's supporters. 

Charges against Cedeno include murder, manslaughter, attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon.

On Sept. 27, police say the 18-year-old Cedeno stabbed two students in a history class at the Urban Assembly School for Wildlife Conservation. The teen and his family say that for years the victims bullied him for his sexual orientation. His defense attorney says the victims attacked Cedeno before the stabbing.

Matthew McCree, 15, died of his injuries.

"My son was never a bully," McCree's mother says. "My son never had words with this boy, with the accused killer, before he took my son's life."