The owner of the New Hampshire country club where a deranged gunman allegedly opened fire at a wedding Saturday, killing one and wounding two others, slammed the shooter as a “coward” following a brief court hearing.

Hunter Nadeau, who reportedly shouted “Free Palestine” before opening fire at Sky Meadow Country Club in Nashua, appeared briefly by video in a courtroom Monday where a judge asked him a few questions and set a probable cause hearing for Oct. 21.

He is charged with murdering Robert DeCesare, 59, who his wife said died trying to protect her and their daughter.

Club owner and longtime Nashua resident Rob Parsons said outside court after that he and everyone in the community are “heartbroken” over the weekend’s attack.

“This is the heinous act of a coward who will be held accountable for what he did,” Parsons said. “We will not let the cowardly acts of this perpetrator define us nor this community.”

Parsons said he’d spoken with DeCesare’s wife of 27 years, Charlene DeCesare. The couple are longtime members of the club, and she said she wouldn’t move from her and her husband’s home at Sky Meadow despite the tragedy.

“She wanted me to first say, ‘Everyone needs to know I am not leaving Sky Meadow and I’m not leaving this community. This is my solace, this is my home … and I’m staying,’” Parsons recounted the wife saying.

Parsons continued reading Charlene’s statement: “As devastated and traumatized as we are feeling right now, I know this has to be incredibly hard for everyone at Sky but what we need to take from this is just what an incredible community we have here.”

“The people of Sky are my heart right now and I’m forever grateful,” Charlene’s statement continued. “And if anyone who lives on the first fairway can give me a lifetime pass to putting a ball in your backyard that would be that would be a bonus.”

“She apologizes,” Parsons said of the statement.  “She is trying to find some levity in this time of crisis. That is the type of person she is.”

During the court hearing, which only lasted a few minutes, the judge asked Nadeau if he’d met with his lawyer and if the lawyer told him he would remain in jail. 

Nadeau — who appeared on a screen in the courtroom, responded, “Yes” to both questions. 

The 23-year-old defendant didn’t enter a plea to the charge of second-degree murder he faces.

After the hearing, prosecutor Peter Hinckley told reporters outside that he expected additional charges to be brought against Nadeau after additional victims have been interviewed. 

Hinckley — who is an assistant prosecutor in the state attorney general’s office — explained the office brought just the single charge of second-degree murder because it means that’s enough to keep Nadeau locked up without bail while investigators finish their probe. 

“We understand and realize there are additional victims and there will be additional charges,” the prosecutor said.

More than 100 people were at Sky Meadow for a wedding near the club’s restaurant when Nadeau opened fire. Officials have said it doesn’t appear as though DeCesare was being targeted by Nadeau. 

Later Monday, Attorney General John Formella announced that the Chief Medical Examiner confirmed that DeCesare died from multiple gunshot wounds and deemed the case a homicide.