Guilty plea in family’s slaying

A young man pleaded guilty in the shooting deaths of his parents and three young siblings, more than two years after he opened fire at his family’s rural home south of Albuquerque.

Nehemiah Griego entered the guilty pleas during a hearing in state children’s court to two counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of his parents and three counts of child abuse resulting in death in the slayings of his three younger siblings — Zephaniah, Jael and Angelina.

Griego was 15 at the time of the 2013 shooting.

A hearing will be held in January to decide whether Griego, 18, will be sentenced as a juvenile or an adult.