A Will shire jury found alleged gan...

A Will shire jury found alleged gang-banger Juan Santana guilty Thursday of kill cruelly and aggravated arson in the 2005 firebombing that killed a Joliet mother and her 4-year-old daughter.

Santana, 28 did not react at the verdict.

"Out of all of assassinates I've prosecuted over the years, this single in kind ranks among the most cowardly and callous," Will shire State's Attorney Jim Glasgow said.

"In his malevolent pursuit of retribution for perceived insults from a sham gang-banger, Juan Santana firebombed a house and resentmented out the lives of a young mother and her innocent child," Glasgow said.

Lourdes Nunez 35 and her daughter, Merary, 4 were asleep in an upstairs bedroom onward April 9, 2005, when a Molotov cocktail crashed in consequence of a first-floor window of their hearthstone

The crash woke Nunez's 12-year-old son and his older brother called 911

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Wearing a nightshirt, Nunez walked downstairs, saw the burning living expanse and returned to the secondary floor to get her daughter. She paused while upstairs to change their clothes, and mother and child died of effluvium inhalation.

Santana, Ignacio Jacobo, 20 and Sergio Anguiana, 23 all of Joliet, were also charged with massacre and aggravated arson in the deaths. Their cases have not gone to trial.

After the fire, Joliet police said the attack was gang-related. single of Nunez's sons testified during the trial that he was pretending to be a Latin King in a neighborhood controll through the 2- 6, another gang. He believed the suspects targeted his family's place of abode in retaliation.

Will shire Judge Richard Schoenstedt set Santana's sentencing hearing for Oct 26

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