The three suspects accused of fatally shooting a Pelham man in Worcester, Mass., after a conflict over a woman pleaded innocent at their arraignments in Worcester Superior Court.

Adrian Ortiz-Rodriguez, 21, of Pelham was gunned down on Ethan Allen Street in Worcester after attending a night club and then a party afterward.

Ortiz-Rodriguez was not directly involved in the altercation between his friend and another man over a woman at a night club, Worcester police said.

The alleged gunman, Hector Cortez, 26, of Worcester is facing charges of murder, assault and battery with a deadly weapon, and six other charges related to his carrying a loaded gun.

Juan Tapia, 22, of Lowell, Mass., who allegedly drove the getaway vehicle, is charged with murder, being an accessory to murder after the fact, being an accessory to murder before the fact, and several other gun charges.

Manuel Padilla, 23, of Worcester is also charged with murder, as well as several other gun and accessory charges similar to Tapia’s.

A grand jury indicted the three men in July. The case proceeded to their Superior Court arraignments on Wednesday, Sept. 10.

“At this time, the cases are being tried together,” said Tim Connelly of the Worcester District Attorney’s Office. The next step is a pre-trial conference scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 8, Connelly said.

According to witness accounts, Ortiz-Rodriguez and a group of friends were at Voodoo, a night club on Commercial Street in Worcester, when a man allegedly confronted one of Ortiz- Rodriguez’s friends for talking to the girl he was with at the club.

After leaving Voodoo, Ortiz- Rodriguez and his friends went to the party 27 Ethan Allen St., about a mile from the club.

“Once at the after hours party, the friend of the victim encountered the same man that he had argued earlier with, and words were exchanged once again,” a Worcester police statement said.

The situation quickly escalated, according to police, when Ramos allegedly went into a bedroom in the house with another man and came out pointing a gun at Ortiz- Rodriguez’s friend, prompting the group to leave the party.

Worcester prosecutors allege Cortez, Padilla and Tapia left the party minutes later, got into a Jeep Cherokee, which police allegedly traced to Padilla’s girlfriend, and circled the block until they found Ortiz-Rodriguez and his friends.

Cortez allegedly fired shots at the group, hitting Ortiz-Rodriguez, who was pronounced dead at St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester at 3:35 p.m. on May 25 from a single bullet that entered his arm and went into his chest.

A security camera caught the three men walking into the 51 Wellington St. apartment complex where Padilla lives. When officers came on the scene at about 3:15 a.m., according to police, Ortiz-Rodriguez’s friends were driving toward St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester at a high rate of speed. Officers followed the two cars to the hospital.

During the Superior Court arraignment on Sept. 10, Cortez’ attorney Alan Black argued outlining the story line and facts in the case would prejudice the jury pool.

“The judge didn’t accept that objection, and Ms. Hatch was allowed to recite the basic facts of the case,” Connelly said. A trial date has not yet been set in the case, nor has jury selection started.