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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The teen who fatally shot his parents and three siblings in their South Valley home in 2013 will be incarcerated until he is 21 in a facility to be determined by the Children, Youth and Families Department as part of a plea deal and a ruling that classifies him as a juvenile amenable to treatment.

The judge made his decision after an hour of emotional statements from surviving family and others including dramatic criticism of his sentencing of Griego as a juvenile.

Second District Attorney Kari Brandenburg plans to appeal Nehemiah Griego’s sentencing handed down by Children’s Court Judge John Romero on Wednesday afternoon in front of a courtroom packed with family and media.

Romero decided in February to sentence Griego, who was 15 when he killed his family, as a juvenile, a status that caps any sentence to when a defendant turns 21. Griego turns 21 in March 2018. He turns 19 this month.

As an adult, he could have faced up to 120 years as part of an October 2015 agreement in which he pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder for the killings of his parents and to three counts of child abuse resulting in death for the killings of his three siblings.

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Brandenburg said after Romero’s ruling that she planed to appeal, and she said Wednesday that is still the plan but there is no timeline for her office to file.

Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office officials said at the time of the killings that Nehemiah had been planning the shootings for days.

He first shot his mother, Sarah Griego, and 9-year-old brother, Zephaniah, with a .22-caliber rifle at around 1 a.m. on Jan. 19. Then he went into his younger sisters’ room and shot Jael, 5, and Angelina, 2, according to sheriff’s deputies.

After that, he waited for his father, Greg Griego, a former pastor at Calvary Church in Albuquerque, to return home from an overnight shift at an Albuquerque homeless shelter. He killed his father with a different rifle.

Staff writers Scott Sandlin and Ryan Boetel contributed to this report.