JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A 47-year-old software developer was convicted Saturday of attempted murder for shooting into a carful of teenagers after an argument about their loud music, but jurors couldn’t agree on the most serious charge of first-degree murder. After more than 30 hours of jury deliberations over four days, a mistrial was declared […]
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Closing Arguments Start in Trial Killer of Black Teen over Loud Music
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A 47-year-old Florida man reacted viciously to an argument over loud music with teenagers in a store parking lot and fired multiple shots into their vehicle, killing one of them, and then drove away as if nothing happened, a prosecutor said Wednesday in a closing argument at the man’s trial. Assistant […]
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Trial of Man who Allegedly Shot Black Teen over Loud Music Enters Final Phases
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Character witnesses for a Florida man charged with fatally shooting a teen after an argument over loud music say they never knew him to be violent, as prosecutors rested their case in the first-degree murder trial Monday. Michael Dunn is pleading not guilty to first-degree murder, saying he acted in self-defense […]
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Fla. School Named for Confederate General & KKK Leader to be Changed
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida school board has decided to end a decades-long controversy and rename a high school now named for a Confederate general and honorary Ku Klux Klan leader that some historical records say ordered the execution of hundreds of black Union soldiers. The Duval County School Board said it was following […]