A Florida prosecutor hinted Saturday that his office would seek the death penalty for the confessed teen killer who massacred 17 people in a high school on Valentine’s Day.

“This certainly is the type of case the death penalty was designed for,” Broward County State Attorney Mike Satz said in a statement. “This was a highly calculated and premeditated murder of 17 people and the attempted murder of everyone in that school. Our office will announce our formal position at the appropriate time.”

Satz gave no indication of when his office planned to make a decision.

“Now is the time to let the families grieve and bury their children and loved ones,” he said.

Satz’s statement comes a day after Broward Public Defender Howard Finkelstein said Nikolas Cruz, 19, would plead guilty in exchange for nixing the death penalty option.

With Wires