LOS ANGELES — Two young men were convicted Monday of first-degree murder for the killings of a 19-year-old woman and a 17-year-old girl at a park in Montecito Heights nearly a decade ago.

The downtown Los Angeles jury deliberated about three hours before returning its verdict in the case of Jose Antonio Echeverria — who was 19 at the time of the crime and is now 28 — and Dallas Stone Pineda, who was 17 at the time of the crimes and is now 27.

Jurors had been ordered to resume their deliberations anew twice —most recently Monday morning when a juror was excused and replaced with an alternate.

Along with the murder charges stemming from the October 2015 killings of 19-year-old Gabriela Calzada and 17-year-old Briana Gallegos, jurors found true the special circumstance allegations of mur

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