A man who was already serving time in state prison when he was charged with the 1983 killing of a single mother in Los Angeles is expected to be sentenced in October to life behind bars without the chance of parole.

A downtown Los Angeles jury deliberated about 45 minutes Wednesday before convicting Teddy Jerome Young, now 63, of first-degree murder for the January 1983 shotgun slaying of 37-year-old Alice Faye Chatman.

Jurors also found true the special circumstance allegations of murder during the commission of a kidnapping and murder during the commission of a rape, along with an allegation that he personally used a shotgun during the crime.

Sentencing was scheduled for Oct. 1 before Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Eleanor J. Hunter.

Los Angeles police had said Young — who w

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