LAFAYETTE, La ( KLFY )– The Joshua Willis murder trial ended with a district court jury finding Willis guilty for the 2016 first-degree murder of Ashley Metz and the second-degree murder of Brouklynn Hill .

After hours of deliberating, the jury found Willis guilty on all charges. Willis will serve life in prison without parole. Additional charges Willis faced were armed robbery, aggravated arson, and second-degree kidnapping.

News 10 spoke with Carla Dean, the mother of Ashley Metz, who said this is the best news she could have received.

“This makes me feel so good,” Dean said. “I’ve waited eight long years, and when I heard guilty on both charges that was the best Mother’s Day present I could ever have.”

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Willis is just one of the suspects on trial as the other suspect, Joseph Sylvester is serving 50 years after a plea agreement for testifying against Willis.

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