A THERAPIST AND A FORENSIC PSYCHIATRIST TELLS AN ALBUQUERQUE COURTROOM THAT 18 YEAR OLD NEHEMIAH GRIEGO IS MAKING PROGRESS … AND IS TREATABLE. GRIEGO HAS BEEN UNDERGOING A HEARING IN ALBUQUERQUE TO DETERMINE IF HE’LL BE SENTENCED AS AN ADULT OR A JUVENILE FOR THE SHOOTING DEATHS OF HIS MOTHER, FATHER AND THREE SIBLINGS IN 2013 WHEN GRIEGO WAS 15.
THE KILLING TOOK PLACE AT THE FAMILY’S SOUTH VALLEY COMPOUND. IF SENTENCED AS A JUVENILE, HE’LL BE HELD IN A FACILITY UNTIL HE’S 21, THEN RELEASED.
THE ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL REPORTS THAT THE THERAPIST AND PSYCHIATRIST SAY THE TEEN WAS SOCIALLY ISOLATED WITH HIS FAMILY … WAS HOME-SCHOOLED … AND TAUGHT TO BE SUSPICIOUS OF THE WORLD BY HIS FATHER, A FORMER GANG MEMBER WHO FOUND RELIGION.
