MOBILE, Ala.—A jury has convicted a man of murder in the death of a transgender man, although no motive was made clear.

Samuel Lamar Moore, 23, was convicted in the October 2006 shooting death of Marco “Coco” Little, 31, in Little’s home. Circuit Judge Rick Stout ordered Moore held March 19 to await sentencing April 24, when he could face a maximum of life in prison.

Assistant District Attorney Jill Phillips suggested that Moore and Little were romantically involved, but she fell short of providing a motive for the slaying.

Defense attorney Claude Patton suggested any number of people could have killed Little. He emphasized the state’s lack of a motive.

Phillips said the state wasn’t required to come up with a motive. She noted that Little was shot twice in the head.

“You shoot someone two times in the head because you want him dead,” Phillips said.

Key prosecution witnesses, including a male friend and a girlfriend of Moore’s, testified that Moore involved them in transporting Little’s gold Cadillac to what Phillips described as a dirt road in Prichard, where Moore torched the car.