It took a jury just over two hours to decide to convict a man accused of fatally shooting a 2-month-old girl, her grandmother and a family friend at point-blank range nearly 10 years ago in Salt Lake City.

The case against Alexander Tran, now 42, had stalled multiple times since his arrest in September 2015 , when police found him holding a gun in the basement of the Jordan Meadows home where he lived with 50-year-old Heike Poike and her two grandchildren, 2-month-old Lyrik and the girl’s 8-year-old brother.

Poike, Lyrik and a family friend, Dakota Smith, were found dead in the home’s living room. The grandmother and little girl had been covered with a blue tarp; Smith was on the couch. All were shot with the same gun Tran was holding, prosecutors said. Lyrik’s brother was not home

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