A gang member faces a life sentence for fatally shooting a Huntington Beach woman and dumping a stolen car with the body in unincorporated West Whittier nearly three years ago.

On Thursday, a jury convicted Anthony Robert Moreno, 40, of Hacienda Heights of first-degree murder and possession of a firearm by a felon, according to Sarah Ardalani, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. She said the jury also found true the allegations that the killing was committed for the benefit of a street gang and that Moreno personally and intentionally fired a gun which caused great bodily injury and death to the victim.

Moreno will be sentenced Aug. 1 at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles.

Moreno shot and killed Dawn McEveety, 19, in a detached garage of an Artesia home on Nov. 24, 2015, according to Deputy District Attorney John Chang. He said the home was a known gang hangout.

Five days later, deputies checking a report of a Toyota Celica abandoned in the 8600 block of Bradwell Avenue in West Whittier made a grisly discovery. They found McEveety’s body in a cooler left in the rear cargo compartment of the stolen car.