"New Mexico teen talks about killings, authorities say; Allegedly shot 5 family members" by Susan Montoya Bryan | Associated Press, January 22, 2013
ALBUQUERQUE — The New Mexico teenager accused of fatally shooting his parents and three siblings told authorities he was annoyed with his mother and had been having homicidal and suicidal thoughts, according to a probable cause statement.
Was he on any pharmaceuticals?
Nehemiah Griego, 15, allegedly told the detective that he took a .22 caliber rifle from his parents’ closet and shot his mother in the head while his younger brother slept next to her.
Griego told the detective that his brother did not believe him that their mother was dead so he showed his mother’s bloody face to his brother and then shot him, according to the statement.
He’s accused of then shooting his two young sisters in their room.
He retrieved an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle from his parents’ closet and waited in a downstairs bathroom for his father to come home.
The statement said he shot his father multiple times after he passed the bathroom doorway.
The teen said he reloaded the guns so ‘‘he could drive to a populated area to murder more people,’’ according to the statement....
He never turned it on himself?
Greg Griego, 51, was a pastor who had once served at one of Albuquerque’s largest Christian churches.
He was well-known throughout the law enforcement community for his work as a voluntary chaplain.
Neighbor Terry Wootan described Griego as a man with a big heart.
The two sometimes chatted at the mailbox and would wave to each other when passing by.
Wootan said Griego told him about his time in California when he was involved in gangs and how he turned his life around and found God....
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"Teen went to church after killing family" by Susan Montoya Bryan | Associated Press, January 25, 2013
ALBUQUERQUE — The teen accused of killing his family and plotting to randomly gun down Walmart shoppers spent much of the day after the early morning slayings at his church, wandering the campus with dozens of Sunday school teachers.
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But former officer and Calvary Albuquerque security chief Vince Harrison said it wasn’t until hours later that he knew something was wrong.
Harrison was called back to the church that evening after 15-year-old Nehemiah Griego told a pastor he found his family dead in their home. ‘‘When I met Nehemiah, I knew something wasn’t right,’’ Harrison said. After finding the bodies, sheriff’s officials took the teen to headquarters. During questioning, he confessed to shooting his mother and three siblings, then waiting in a bathroom with a semi-automatic rifle to ambush his father upon his return from an overnight shift at a homeless shelter.
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