AKRON, Ohio — A 20-year-old man faces the death penalty after a jury convicted him of bludgeoning a New Franklin Township couple to death in their home.

The Summit County jury on Wednesday found Shawn Ford, 20, guilty of attacking his ex-girlfriend and later killing her parents, Jeffrey and Margaret Schobert in April 2013.

The jury convicted Ford on five counts of aggravated murder, two counts of aggravated robbery, and one count each of petty theft, grand theft, aggravated burglary and felonious assault.

The mitigation phase of the trial is set to begin Monday in front of Summit County Judge Tom Parker. The jury will hear evidence and decide whether to recommend the death penalty.

Ford's mother wept silently as the verdict was read and left shortly after the hearing without commenting.

Schobert family members also declined comment after the hearing, citing a gag order by Parker. Several exchanged hugs and held hands.

"We are very pleased with the verdicts," said Summit County Prosecutor Sherri Bevan Walsh.

Prosecutors said during the trial that Ford attacked Chelsea Schobert on March 23, 2013 after she declined to have sex with him during a birthday celebration.

The attack left Chelsea Schobert hospitalized at Akron Children's Hospital for a month. The Schoberts talked and sometimes argued with their daughter about them barring Ford from seeing their daughter, prosecutors said.

Jeffrey Schobert, 56, went home from the hospital April 1, 2013. Ford and a then-14-year-old boy, Jamal Vaughn, climbed through a bedroom window to the Schobert's home, grabbed a sledgehammer from the garage and beat Jeffrey Schobert with it 14 times, killing him, according to prosecutors.

Ford and Vaughn, who is being tried as an adult in a separate trial, played video games and drank pop while they waited for Margaret Schobert to return home, according to prosecutors. Ford then sent text messages to Margaret Schobert from Jeffrey Schobert's phone, asking her when she was coming home, prosecutors said.

Margaret Schobert came home about 6 a.m. on April 2 and Ford and Vaughn struck her 19 times with a sledgehammer, killing her, prosecutors said.