Killing the process associated with a Windows service programatically?

Hey experts,

I have a question that I'm struggling with and would love your help with this. Let me start with the logic of what I'm trying to do.

Logic:

1. There is a windows service running. eg. Name = "Service A"
2. I want to stop the service.
3. I have an associated timeout for the service. eg. 2000
4. if the timeout occurs and the service doesnt stop in that time, I want to kill the process associated with the service.

Question:

How do I kill the process associated with the service, when I only have the name of the service. Basically, if I'm using serviceController, How do I kill the service?

I have some psuedo code here. Please advice.

Thanks,

ServiceController service  = new ServiceController("Service A");
 
try 
{
     service.stop();
     service.waitforstatus(STOPPED, 2000);
}
catch 
{
     // need to kill the process associated with the service. But only have the service name  
     // with me i.e. 'Service A'
}

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