( CNN ) -- A California judge ruled Thursday that a boy who murdered his father , a neo-Nazi leader , will serve his sentence in a yet-to-be-named juvenile detention facility . The boy was 10 when he killed his father , Jeffrey Hall . He is now 13 and could remain at the facility until he is 23 . Hall was asleep on a couch in his family 's Riverside home when his son killed him on May 1 , 2011 , according to authorities . CNN is not naming the boy because he is a juvenile . Hall had been the Southwestern states regional director for the National Socialist Movement , according to an online tribute to him from the group 's leader , Jeff Schoep . One of the nation 's biggest , most well-known neo-Nazi organizations , the National Socialist Movement idolizes Adolf Hitler and touts virulent rhetoric against those who are Jewish , immigrants and not `` pure-blood whites , '' according to the Southern Poverty Law Center civil rights group . Prosecutors contend the victim 's neo-Nazi background is not linked to his death , saying the young killer 's concerns about abuse and his family being split up were more significant factors . `` It was our belief that this would have happened even if ( Hall ) was not part of the National Socialist Movement , '' said John Hall , a spokesman for the Riverside County district attorney 's office . `` This was done more on a domestic level . '' The boy was detained in juvenile halls in Riverside County after the shooting . His lawyers initially sought an insanity defense but later dropped that approach and argued their client did n't fully grasp the ramifications of what he did , the spokesman said . The murder trial before county Judge Jean Leonard -- and not a jury -- got underway October 30 , 2012 , continuing off-and-on for about 10 days over four months , ending January . As there are no `` guilty '' or `` not guilty '' verdicts in her California juvenile court , Leonard instead found it `` true '' that the boy had committed second-degree murder and understood his actions were wrong . CNN 's Greg Botelho contributed to this report .
A boy , then 13 , fatally shot his father in 1995 as he was sleeping on a couch . The father was a leader in the National Socialist ##s , a neo - Nazi group . The boy , now 13 , could remain at the juvenile facility until he is 23 .