Editor's Note: This article has been updated to reflect Montez was found shot and later died.

A Nueces County jury has found Chloe Huehlefeld guilty of murder and engaging in organized criminal activity.

Nueces County Sheriff's deputies found Elizabeth Stephanie Montez Oct. 21, 2017 between Corpus Christi and Robstown, and she later died.

The verdict was returned Tuesday, after roughly two hours of deliberation. Jurors were given the case late Monday after Huehlefeld took the stand in her own defense.

Huelefeld's sentence was not determined by the jury that convicted her. Instead, attorneys reached an agreed sentence of 40 years in prison. Judge Sandra Watts is expected to decide whether to accept that agreement in the months to come.

Others charged in the death of Montez, a transgender woman, are Cedric Green, Randy Dorsey and Jace Montange.

Dorsey accepted a plea deal with prosecutors earlier this month. Green and Montange's trials are scheduled for December.

Prosecutors have argued the four created a plan to kill Montez over stolen money. She was taken to a barn, where she was shot to death.

Huehlefeld's defense attorney maintained while she was present when the shooting occurred, she wasn't a part of the planning, asserting Huehlefeld was a "victim of circumstance."

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