Nearly two years after her son, 12-year-old Alajawan Brown, was murdered, Ayanna Brown had some words for him Thursday.

“We won, baby, we won.” A few seconds later she whispered, “We won.”

Just moments before, 36-year-old Curtis Walker of Kent was found guilty of first-degree murder with a firearms enhancement that could add time to the sentence.

The Browns embraced immediately after the verdict was read inside the courtroom. Walker was only in the courtroom for a shot time before he was taken back to his cell.

Walker, a felon, was also found guilty of possession of a firearm.

A sentencing is still more than a week away. The sentencing range is 39 to 50 years in prison, according to  Dan Donohoe, a spokesman for the King County Prosecutors Office.

The case went to the jury a day earlier, after prosecutors and Walker’s defense team made their closing arguments in the three-week trial in King County Superior Court in downtown Seattle.

“They (the jury) got the case,” said Ayanna Brown, flanked by her husband Louis and their daughter Louketa.

Despite the verdict, Ayanna Brown said she doesn’t think Walker will take responsibility for her son’s murder.

Walker’s attorneys tried to convince the jury that another man, Rodrigues Rabun, who was at the Cedar Village Apartments on West Hill, shot the round from a .38 caliber revolver that killed Alajawan on April 29, 2010.

But the evidence, including Walker’s DNA on shells and the trigger of the revolver, and eyewitness accounts at the 7-11 store on Martin Luther King Jr. Way, convinced the jurors otherwise.

Why was her son shot? “Wrong place, wrong time,” Ayanna Brown answered.

Prosecutors argued that Alajawan’s murder was a revenge killing; Walker’s friend, Johnathan Jackson, was wounded in a gang-related shooting just minutes earlier at the nearby apartments.

No matter the reason, Alajawan, who loved to play football, is dead. He was walking home from the bus stop at the 7-11, new football shoes in hand that he had just bought at Walmart with money he had earned gardening for neighbors and doing chores.

Walker fired two rounds at Alajawan, who, although he was just 12, looked like a young man because of his size. One bullet struck him in the back.

“My son is still gone,” his father Louis said Thursday, outside the courtroom. “He’s not here.”

Sheriff Sue Rahr met the Browns in an embrace outside the courtroom. She has become friends with the family and attended parts of the trial. She was at Alajawan’s emotional funeral in Renton and stood next to county Prosecutor Dan Satterberg when charges were announced against Walker in June 2010.

Louketa Brown lost her little brother on that warm spring day.It’s a “big relief,” she said, now that Walker has been found guilty. But the verdict “doesn’t bring him (Alajawan) back.”

“It’s hard,” she said. “That’s my baby brother.”