MOULTRIE — A Colquitt County man in jail on five murder charges is accused of beating a fellow inmate unconscious on Thursday over a disagreement about what to watch on TV.

Jeffrey Alan Peacock hit Amentez Slaughter several times, knocking Slaughter out, according the Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office. Slaughter was being held on a charge of loitering and prowling.

“They fought over a TV show,” sheriff’s Sgt. Nathan Cato said. “Slaughter wanted the remote and Peacock said no. He decided to swing on him and knocked him unconscious.”

Cato said that he was not aware of any previous friction between the two jail inmates prior to Thursday’s incident.

He did not know which program Peacock was watching at the time.

Peacock, 26, was charged on Thursday with aggravated battery, a felony count.

He is being held in Colquitt County Jail on a $1 million bond

Peacock, who faces the death penalty if convicted, was indicted on five counts each of malice murder and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony. A grand jury also indicted him on three counts of aggravated cruelty to dogs and arson.

Peacock is accused of fatally shooting four men and one woman at their 505 Rossman Dairy Road residence  on May 15, 2016.

Prosecutors say that Peacock shot Jonathan Garrett Edwards, Ramsey Jones Pidcock and Aaron Reid Williams, all 21; 20-year-old Alicia Brooke Norman; and Jordan Shane Croft, 22. The five were shot in the head inside their residence before the wood-frame house was set ablaze.

Autopsies indicate that the five were dead before the fire was set because there was no smoke in their lungs.

Two dogs inside the residence died of burns and smoke inhalation inside the residence, according to investigators, and the body of a third dog with a fractured head was found outside the house.

Peacock, who was there when police arrived and was one of three callers to 911 who reported the fire, told officers at the scene that he had gotten breakfast for the group in Moultrie and saw the smoke as he was returning.

A Colquitt County Superior Court Judge has set hearings for motions in the case for Aug. 16, 17 and 24. No date has been set for the trial.