LOS ANGELES – A man was convicted Monday of first-degree murder and robbery for using two knives to fatally stab a 67-year-old woman on a Metro train in the Studio City area last year.

Jurors deliberated about an hour before finding Elliott Nowden, now 47, guilty of the April 22, 2024, attack on Mirna Soza Arauz.

The downtown Los Angeles jury also found true the special circumstance allegation of murder during the commission of a robbery, along with allegations that he personally used a knife and that the victim was robbed while she was a passenger aboard the train.

Nowden is facing life in prison without the possibility of parole, with sentencing set Dec. 12 before Superior Court Judge Karla D. Kerlin.

Deputy District Attorney Alexander Bott told jurors in his closing argument that

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