SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A Mapuche Indian who was shot in the neck during an arson attack was convicted on Thursday of killing an elderly couple in a region of southern Chile that the indigenous group claims as its ancestral territory.

The court found Celestino Cordova Transito, 27, guilty of arson and murder but said the evidence didn’t constitute a terrorist act. That’s a blow to the government of outgoing President Sebastian Pinera, which responded to the Jan. 4, 2013, killing by invoking an anti-terror law dating back to Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship.