A jury found a Vallejo woman guilty of murder Tuesday for the killing of her son's father in the parking lot of his Pittsburg apartment complex three years ago.

The verdict, read Tuesday afternoon in a Richmond courtroom, came at the end of a second murder trial for Jennell Wright, 37, who prosecutors said gunned down 31-year-old Andrew Le'Mar Green on Feb. 23, 2010.

The first trial ended more than a year ago with a hung jury.

Tuesday, however, the jury convicted Wright on a first-degree murder charge and also found true special circumstances allegations that she committed the murder by lying in wait and with the intentional use of a firearm.

The special circumstances conviction means she will serve a minimum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole, and that she is also eligible for the death penalty.

Dressed in a black business suit, Wright did not show any emotion as a bailiff handcuffed her and led her out of the courtroom today

Green's mother, Lucinda Jackson, wiped away tears as the verdict was read.

"It's been a long journey, I'm glad it's over," she said outside of the courtroom.

Jackson recalled the increasingly troubled relationship between her son and Wright, who she said became obsessed with Green leading up to his murder.

The two were no longer romantically involved and shared custody of their toddler-aged son, Savion, at the time of the killing.

But Jackson said Wright did not want Green to be a part of the boy's life and that her son feared his ex would do anything to prevent that from happening.

On the day of his murder, he called his mother to tell her he wanted to hire a lawyer because he worried Wright might hurt their son, said Jackson, who now has full custody of him.

"It's sad because it didn't have to come to this," she said. "Every day there are parents separated or divorced that work together to raise their child."

Instead, Wright formed a plan to kill Green.

Deputy District Attorney Lynn Uilkema said Wright set the plan into action on the night of Feb. 22, 2010, when she checked into a hotel near her ex-boyfriend's Pittsburg apartment complex.

Hours later, armed with a gun and bullet speed-loader, she drove to the complex and waited in a darkened corner of the parking lot for him to return home from work.

After Green pulled into the lot in the early hours of Feb. 23, 2010, Wright carried out her plan, shooting him three times, according to Uilkema.

During the trial, Wright claimed she never meant to kill Green and instead had planned to kill herself.

Her defense attorney, Winnifred Gin, argued that the defendant was suicidal and disoriented when she went to visit her Green that night.

Jackson said today that she is glad a jury finally saw through that argument and held Wright accountable for killing her son.

"I miss him, he was a gentle soul," she said.

"The one who lost the most here is Savion. Savion is not going to have a mother or a father to be at all the important dates and milestones," Jackson said. "But we're going to make sure he makes it -- he's going to grow up to be everything his father wanted him to be."

Wright is set to return to court on March 15 to set a sentencing date.