State ex rel. D.D.

AMY, Judge.

liThe State filed a petition charging the juvenile defendant with second degree murder and aggravated battery. After an adjudication hearing, the trial court adjudicated the juvenile as delinquent and imposed a disposition of secure placement until the juvenile attained the age of twenty-one without benefit of parole, probation, suspension of imposition or execution of sentence, or modification of sentence. The juvenile appeals. For the following reasons, we affirm and remand the matter to the trial court with instructions.

*173Factual and Procedural Background

After Joseph Nelson died…