OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A judge has ordered a man convicted of killing four Omaha people last summer to a state psychiatric hospital for treatment in an effort to restore his mental competency to undergo sentencing.

The decision came Tuesday in a brief hearing before Douglas County District Judge Peter Bataillon held after the judge found earlier this month that Nikko Jenkins was not mentally fit enough for a sentencing hearing.

Jenkins pleaded guilty and was convicted in April of four counts of first-degree murder for the August 2013 shotgun deaths of Curtis Bradford, Jorge (HOR-hay) Cajiga-Ruiz (cah-HE-gah ROO-ez), Juan (WAN) Uribe-Pena (oo-REE-bay PE-nyah) and Andrea Kruger in separate attacks.

Public defender Tom Riley and Douglas County prosecutor Don Kleine both agreed that Jenkins should be sent to the Lincoln Regional Center.