A jury returned a guilty verdict Friday for a teen accused of killing another teenager as payback for a robbery.

Gabriel Ayala was 15 when a judge ruled in 2023 that he would be tried as an adult. He faced a count of murder with use of a deadly weapon in connection with the fatal shooting of 16-year-old Eddwin Ramos-Figueroa that year on the 2600 block of Donna Street in North Las Vegas.

The jury found him guilty of voluntary manslaughter with use of a deadly weapon.

Prosecutor Michael Allmon said Ayala lived with Jesus Ayala, one of the teens accused of killing a retired police chief in a 2023 hit-and-run crash. Authorities believe the two Ayalas are brothers, but do not know for sure, he said.

Gabriel Ayala had been robbed, grabbed a gun and found Ramos-Figueroa, one of the people wh

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