Guilty verdict in murder of 12-year-old boy

A judge has found Curtis J. Walker guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of a 12-year-old Skyway boy.

Investigators say Alajawan Brown was deliberately gunned down in April 2010 in a 7-Eleven store parking lot as he got off of a bus.

Charging papers said Walker was at a separate shooting of one of his friends just blocks away in Skyline when he came across Brown moments later and shot him.

Investigators say Walker mistakenly believed that Brown was involved in the earlier shooting and shot him in the back.

DNA evidence recovered from the revolver used in the shooting linked Walker to Brown’s murder.

King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg has called the murder a fatal case of mistaken identity.

97.3 KIRO FM’s Tim Haeck contributed to this report.