UPPER MARLBORO, Md. -- Jurors convict a teen of first-degree murder for fatally shooting a man during an apparent botched robbery attempt last year in Capitol Heights.

Khiry Montay Moore, 17, was charged as an adult with murder in the death of 19-year-old Maurice Powell. Closing arguments were made on Wednesday.

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Moore was charged as an adult with 15 counts, including first-degree murder and the use of a handgun during a crime of violence.

"It is a sad and frightening situation when youth who are only out together to enjoy a movie are attacked and gunned down for no reason," said Prince George's County State's Attorney Glenn F. Ivey. "I commend the jury for coming up with a conviction by deliberating thoroughly 11 hours over two days; the Assistant State's Attorney, Richard Allen Moore II; and the witnesses who testified against Moore, a young man who, because of his disrespect for the life of a human being - an innocent young man - truly needs to be removed from the streets of the County."

The jury had about five questions Thursday, ranging from how to operate the DVD player on which they are watching the videotaped confession to whether or not certain charges can be separated.

Prosecutors said the case is a clear-cut example of premeditated murder. They said Moore admitted to the killing during a tearful confession to police. They said he told police the shooting was an accident, he didn't target anyone and he had been drinking.

"He knew what he was doing. He wanted to do it. This was no accident as he would want you to believe," said Richard Moore, assistant state's attorney.

Police released the recording of the confession after the verdict was read.

"When you ran away, after the kid got shot, and if you fired the gun, what did you do with the gun?" asked the officer who was interrogating Moore.

Moore said he got rid of the gun.

"I gave it away," he said.

"To who?" the officer asked.

"I'm not sure," Moore said.

He said he didn't know the name of the person to whom he had given the gun.

Moore's attorney, Don Ansell, said the confession was coerced and the 16-year-old repeatedly asked to see his mother during the hours-long interrogation.

In the video of the confession, the boy's mother can be seen comforting her son and asking him why he had been drinking that night.

"There's nothing I can do," she told Moore. "People go to jail for murder. You know that."

"He wasn't leaving that police station until he told them what they wanted to hear," Ansell said.

The jury asked the judge Wednesday if the defendant had the right to have his mother present while he was being questioned by police. The judge told jurors to continue their deliberations and did not answer the question.

Police said that on March 11, 2007, Powell and his friends were returning home to Seat Pleasant after going to a movie in Georgetown. They got off the Metro at the Addison Road Station and noticed they were being followed. They ran, which is when shots were fired, striking and killing Powell.

Prosecutors said Moore was drinking and hanging out with friends when the shooting took place. They said those friends later identified Moore as the shooter.

"This was a young man who worked hard, played sports and went to church," Ivey said. "Mr. Powell was a 2006 graduate of Prince George's County Central High School and a student at the TESST College of Technology and had such promise. I am pleased justice was done and Khiry Montay Moore will be put behind bars for taking such a life."

Powell graduated from Central High School in Capitol Heights, where he was a football and track star. Powell's family said he was studying criminal justice at TESST College and wanted to be a lawyer.

Powell's father was in the courtroom when the guilty verdict was read on Thursday night.

"There's some closure in this and justice has prevailed," Morris Muse said. "We’re in prayer for the family, because we feel that they're losing a son, as well."

Moore, who was 16 at the time of the shooting, had dropped out of Central in the ninth grade because of bad grades, attorneys said.

Moore faces a possible life sentence when he is sentenced on May 13.

Moore's two co-defendants, Steven H. Scott and Charles McKinley Dutch, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit attempted robbery with a dangerous weapon. They will be sentenced on Friday.