Jurors completed their seventh day of deliberations with no verdict within the XXXTentacion homicide trial.
The Florida jury was despatched house for a number of days on Thursday afternoon (March 16). Decide Michael Usan granted the jury’s request for a break day, permitting jurors to renew deliberations on Monday (March 20).
Michael Boatwright, Dedrick Williams and Trayvon Newsome had been charged with first-degree homicide within the capturing dying of XXXTentacion. They face life in jail if convicted.
The trio’s homicide trial started in February. Final week, the jury began the deliberation course of.
Prosecutors accused Boatwright, Williams and Newsome of focusing on XXXTentacion in a lethal theft. A fourth man, Robert Allen, pleaded responsible to second-degree homicide for his function within the late rapper’s dying.
Allen testified in opposition to Boatwright, Williams and Newsome. Allen recognized Boatwright as the person who shot XXXTentacion and Newsome because the one who grabbed a Louis Vuitton bag containing $50,000 in money.
Prosecutors performed surveillance footage of the violent theft, which confirmed two masked males confronting XXXTentacion earlier than the deadly pictures had been fired. Allen stated Williams served because the getaway driver.
XXXTentacion, whose actual title was Jahseh Onfroy, was shot and killed outdoors of a Florida dealership in June 2018. He was 20.
