SCHENECTADY — A jury on Thursday returned guilty verdicts against Joevany "Moon" Luna and Kyshaaan Moore for their roles in the 2016 contract killing of Charles Dembrosky outside his home on Campbell Avenue.

Luna, 43, was convicted of first-degree murder, which carries the possibility of life without parole. Moore, 27, was acquitted of first-degree murder but convicted of second-degree murder, which brings a sentence of 25 years to life. The Wilmington, Del., men were both convicted of conspiracy and weapons charges.

Tarchand Lall, the man who allegedly paid them $10,000 to kill Dembrosky, faces an upcoming first-degree murder trial as well. Assistant District Attorneys Peter Willis and Jennifer Assini alleged Lall wanted Dembrosky dead to collect on an insurance policy on Dembrosky's life that Lall took out in May 2016.

After the verdict, Schenectady County District Attorney Robert Carney alleged that Lall, who was recently charged with criminal solicitation while he remains in custody at the county jail, tried to arrange a second murder on the same blueprint.

"The allegation is that he was trying to repeat the scheme with another victim ... trying to get somebody else murdered for life insurance proceeds," Carney said.

Dembrosky was found shot once in the neck during the pre-dawn hours of Nov. 19, 2016.

In the 10 days preceding the murder, Luna — a Panamanian native who had no ties to upstate New York — exchanged 67 phone calls or text messages with Lall.

Prosecutors introduced what they described as overwhelming evidence against Luna and Moore.

They noted Luna's cell phone number called the victim's cell phone in the hours before Dembrosky was killed. Cellphone data showed that on the night of the murder, the cell phones of Luna and Moore pinged off cell phone towers from Wilmington to Schenectady.

Carney said the ability to map out the killers' digital trail was key to breaking the case. "It's not something that would have been possible at the beginning of my tenure. We didn't even have cell phones," said Carney, who has been in office since 1990.

Camera footage on the Thruway captured a license plate of a red Mazda 6 sedan — matching the one owned by Moore's girlfriend — traveling north on the night of the murder.

Street camera footage captured the car outside the Schenectady home of Lall on the night of the murder. Prosecutors said it showed Luna and Moore, neither of whom had ties to Schenectady, were there to collect the money and get directions to Dembrosky's home.

Meanwhile, Luna's ex-girlfriend, Brandi Moore (no relation to Kyshaan Moore) testified against Luna. She had received some of the money from Lall at a Wal-Mart in the Wilmington area.

Luna attorney Mark Juda tried to pin the murder on Brandi Moore. Kyshaan Moore's lawyer, Michael Mansion, argued that his client had no involvement with Lall and the evidence against him was lacking.

The verdicts were returned after less than a day of deliberations.