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Thug convicted of murder in shooting innocent mom during gang fight

The Brooklyn man who gunned down an innocent mother of 12 during a gang beef had to be restrained by court officers today after a jury convicted him on murder and assault charges.

“Take me out of here,” Andrew Lopez, 20, said after the jury announced the guilty verdict, as two court officers held him down in his chair and his mother sobbed in the Brooklyn Supreme Court gallery.

Lopez was found guilty of killing Zurana Horton and injuring another woman and an 11-year-old girl when he blasted a 9 mm handgun from a Brownsville rooftop during a gangland beef in 2011.

“I’m so happy. It’s a burden off my mind to know that he’s not going to walk around and try to kill somebody else,” said Denise Peace, the mother of the murdered woman. “Zurana’s smiling in heaven right now.”

Lopez’s brother, Jonathan Carrasquillo, faced murder charges in the same trial for allegedly ordering Lopez to blast the rival gangbangers. A separate jury will deliberate his fate today.

Prosecutors said Lopez could get 75 years to life in prison when he is sentenced May 7.