Emporia ? A Lyon County jury convicted a second man of murder on Tuesday in the apartment explosion that killed an Emporia mother and her baby.

Jurors found Ethan M. Griffin, 26, guilty of two counts of first-degree murder, five counts of aggravated battery and two counts of burglary.

They found him innocent of aggravated arson, theft and criminal damage to property.

Co-defendant Wallace L. Dixon III was convicted last week of the same charges, along with theft, criminal damage to property, aggravated assault and criminal possession of a firearm.

Both men are to be sentenced June 17. The murder convictions carry mandatory sentences of 20 years to life with no possibility for parole for 20 years, according to Stephen Maxwell, assistant attorney general, one of the prosecutors on the case.

The murder verdicts will prompt mandatory appeals.

The men were charged with burglarizing the apartment of Alicia Shaw on July 29, causing an explosion and fire that killed Dana Hudson, 19, and her 13-month-old son, Gabriel, who lived next door to Shaw. Other residents of the apartment building were injured in the fire.

Maxwell told jurors that Griffin chose to steal from the Shaw apartment and chose to stay with Dixon when he knew Dixon intended to blow up the apartment.

Neither verdict surprised Dana Hudson’s mother, Terri Clark, who sat through both trials with her husband, Bruce Hudson, and other family members.

The family spoke publicly about the verdicts for the first time on Tuesday.

“People keep asking me, is there satisfaction?” Clark said. “But it’s just one big nightmare.”

For the Hudson family, Tuesday’s verdict gives them a chance to move on.