SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — An escaped inmate who held a Santa Cruz preschool teacher at gunpoint and attacked a deputy faces life in prison after being convicted of 39 charges including attempted murder and kidnapping.

The Santa Cruz Sentinel reports (http://bit.ly/XtRL0n) that jurors in Santa Cruz County Superior Court on Friday also found Maurice Ainsworth not guilty of two charges of intimidating and dissuading a witness.

The 26-year-old escaped after stunning a deputy with her own stun gun during a hospital visit on Nov. 29, 2010.

Authorities said Ainsworth took the deputy's gun and fled to a nearby preschool, where he held a gun to a teacher's head and demanded her car keys.

Ainsworth also was convicted of charges related to a couple who was held hostage during a home invasion after he left the preschool.