A Roanoke Circuit Court judge on Friday afternoon convicted a 17-year-old of killing another teenager.

Marquise Terrel Daye is scheduled to be sentenced Feb. 3 for fatally shooting Gregory Grant, 15.

Judge Clifford Weckstein ordered Daye to be transferred from a juvenile detention center to Roanoke City Jail. Daye was tried as an adult.

He pleaded no contest Friday to an amended charge of second-degree murder. In August, a grand jury had indicted Daye on two charges: first-degree murder and using a firearm to commit the felony.

The latter charge was dropped Friday, and Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Peter Lubeck proposed a 13-year cap on the recommended sentence in exchange for Daye's plea. The maximum sentence is 40 years in prison, Weckstein said. He wanted to make sure Daye understood that the judge is the one who will decide the sentence.

"I am not bound by the recommendations any of the parties in this suit make," Weckstein said.

Grant was a ninth-grader at Patrick Henry High School. He died June 14 after being shot in the back of the head. Prosecutors said the shooting followed a dispute between Daye's sister and another girl. The sister had asked her mother and brother to come to Rutherford Avenue Northwest. Daye brought a loaded pistol, Lubeck said.

Daye found the girl who fought his sister with a group of people in the 500 block of Rutherford Avenue, and Grant was among the group. The two boys began exchanging words.

At some point, Grant ran from the argument, and Daye fired two shots at him, Lubeck said.

The pistol jammed, but Daye cleared the gun and fired more shots, one of which hit Grant in the back of the head.