HUTCHINSON – The state is not giving up its efforts to have a Kansas teen convicted this week for two counts of murder moved to the county jail from juvenile detention.

The state filed a motion Friday in the case of 17-year-old Samuel Vonachen after the Judge Trish Rose denied their immediate request for the move after the verdict in the murder case was read, according to District Attorney Keith Schroeder.

On Wednesday a jury convicted the teen of two counts of first-degree murder for the killing of his mother and sister, who died after he set fire to the family home on Sept. 26 2013. His father was able to escape.

Sentencing is set for Sept. 30.