A Latino gang member has been convicted in the stabbing death of a fellow gang member who was mistakenly believed to be a snitch in the racially motivated killing of a black girl

A Los Angeles County jury has found 35-year-old Raul Silva guilty of first-degree murder. He faces life in prison without the possibility of parole when he is sentenced. Silva is one of four men convicted of killing Christopher Ash, who died from 62 stab wounds, because they suspected he might be talking to police about the murder of 14-year-old Cheryl Green. Prosecutors said that Ash never cooperated with police. Authorities believe that the gang fired at a group of blacks in the Harbor Gateway area after a confrontation between themselves and a black man.