Retrial to begin for Florida man accused of shooting teen over loud music
JACKSONVILLE Fla. (Reuters) – Jury selection is due to begin on Monday in the north Florida retrial of a white, middle-aged man charged with killing an unarmed black teenager during a dispute about loud rap music.
A Jacksonville jury previously deadlocked on a charge of first-degree murder for Michael Dunn, 47, who claimed to be acting in self-defense in the shooting death.
Dunn, a software engineer, fired 10 rounds at an SUV carrying four black teens listening to music in a Jacksonville gas station parking lot in November 2012, killing 17-year-old Jordan Davis.
The jury convicted Dunn in February on three lesser counts of attempted murder for firing at the three teens who survived in the vehicle, which was parked next to Dunn’s. His sentencing was postponed until after his retrial on the outstanding charge.
The first trial received international attention over its racial overtones and Dunn’s claims of self-defense, drawing comparisons to the case of George Zimmerman, who was acquitted of murder in Florida last year in the shooting of Trayvon Martin, another unarmed, black 17-year-old.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/retrial-to-begin-for-florida-man-accused-of-shooting-teen-over-loud-music/
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