Marquice Evans has been found guilty of first-degree murder in the brutal murder of an Erie grandmother.

Jurors started deliberations around 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, and reached the decision less than one hour later.

Evans was convicted on all eight charges, which also include conspiracy to commit criminal homicide, aggravated assault, burglary, recklessly endangering another person, access device use fraud, unlawful restraint and possession of an instrument of crime.

He brutally killed 58-year-old Sherry Lyons inside her East 27th street home, back in June of 2015.

Darlene Stanton Robinson testified during Evans' trail. She is Sherry Lyons' sister, and was one of the family members who discovered her body, "I'm very satisfied, he got what he deserved," Stanton said after hearing the verdict. "And really, it shouldn't have never happened like that, she's a wonderful lady and she shouldn't have went out like that," Stanton continued.

During the prosecution's closing arguments, Assistant District Attorney Erin Connelly told the jury, "Sherry Lyons suffered a brutal death. Whoever did this had every intention to kill her from the minute they walked into her front door."

The jury agreed, coming back with that first degree murder conviction in less than 60 minutes.

Connelly said this was one of the most gruesome cases she's ever seen, "This is definitely a sense of justice for the community," Connelly said of the guilty verdict. "He's a very, very bad individual, it was a horrendous homicide, probably the worse we've ever seen. So to be able to protect the community from someone like that...  we're also very happy for the victim's family, " Connelly added.

Evans used a large decorative wooden spoon, and police say possibly also a gun, to beat Lyons several times. Forensic Pathologist Dr. Eric Vey testified during the trial that Lyons suffered from 7 violent blows to the head.

But Dr. Vey testified this week that it wasn't the blows to her head that killed her. Lyons suffocated to death after Evans wrapped "a mask" of duct tape so tightly around her entire head and face, which prevented her from being able to breathe.

Evans then pushed her down her basement stairs, dragged her across the basement floor, and threw a television on top of her. That television also prevented her from being able to breathe.

Many times during the trial, Connelly referred to the heavy, duct tapped "mask," which laid on a table in front of the jury, inside a plastic evidence bag. It had to be cut from Lyons' head during her autopsy, "The duct tape mask that we used and entered into evidence was horrifying," said Connelly. "He literally made a mask out of tape and wrapped it, wrapped it, wrapped it, around her head until she suffocated to death," Connelly added the "mask" made her uneasy while handling it during trial.

There was damning evidence the prosecution presented during trial, including DNA evidence.

Investigators found Evans' DNA on a bloody wooden spoon handle that detectives found on a table inside Lyons' home.

Evans' DNA was also found on an empty pop bottle, police recovered from right outside Lyons' home at the crime scene.

While the defense argued Evans had mowed Lyons' lawn in the past and it could have gotten there at any time... the jury didn't buy it.

The evidence also showed Evans conspired with the mother of his unborn child at the time, 18-year-old Teonia Kimbro, to kill Lyons for her money.

From June 19, 2015, until the day of her death on the 23rd, bank statements showed numerous withdraws of various amounts, from ATM's all over the city of Erie.

The prosecution showed pictures and surveillance video of Evans using Lyons' debit card at ATMs at the exact times and locations of the withdraws and attempted withdraws, from Lyons' bank statements.

The prosecution also presented several text messages between Evans and Kimbro. Conversations which showed the duo conspired to kill Lyons because she found out that Kimbro withdrew about $300 from her bank account.

"They were planning a murder," Connelly told the jury.

In one text message, Kimbro wrote in part, "you gonna kill this b*^#h." Evans responded, "Ok I got you. My word she a goner"

Evans did not testify in his own defense.

He faces life in prison when he's sentenced on November 10th.

Kimbro's trial is set to start in January. She is facing the same charges as Evans, including first degree murder.