ABOUT 2-THOUSAND PEOPLE PACK CALVARY CHURCH IN ALBUQUERQUE WEDNESDAY NIGHT FOR A PRAYER VIGIL FOR THE GRIEGO FAMILY SHOT TO DEATH IN THEIR SOUTH VALLEY HOME LAST SATURDAY. AT ABOUT THE SAME TIME, A CNN HEADLINE NEWS PANEL DISCUSSED REASONS WHY 15 YEAR OLD NEHEMIAH GRIEGO WOULD KILL HIS MOTHER, FATHER, AND THREE SIBLINGS.

FORMER STATE SENATOR ERIC GRIEGO WENT ON THE AIR WITH THEM TO DEFEND HIS NEPHEW. NEHEMIAH'S FATHER ... GREG GRIEGO .. WAS ERIC GRIEGO'S BROTHER. HE SAID THE TEEN'S GIRLFRIEND INFLUENCED HIS DECISION TO KILL HIS FAMILY. AND AS FOR WHY GREG GRIEGO HAD SO MANY GUNS ACCESSIBLE IN THE HOUSE ... ERIC GRIEGO TOLD THE PANEL HE FELT THE FAMILY NEEDED THAT PROTECTION.