michael dunn says it was all in self defense. his girlfriend when they pulled into a convenience store to get a bottle of wine. she went in to get the wine. next to his car, four teenagers playing very loud music. he didn't like the music, he asked them to turn it down. words were exchanged, so was gunfire. at least one-way gunfire was shot. the woman who is at the center of testifying about what the scene was like is that fiancfia rhonda auro rhonda our. have a listen. >> did the defendant say anything about the music when he parked the car next to the red car? >> yes. >> what did the defendant say? >> i hate that thug music. >> and what was your response to the defendant? >> i said, yes, i know. >> rhonda rouer, talking about thug music, four black teenagers, and the defendant himself has had some pretty choice words to describe the african-american community, at least in the jail where he has been held since all of this happened. my next guest has a lot to say about that. he's a prominent pastor at a local church here, and he

no one said there was a gun other than michael dunn. so i think that to rely on his word, did espidespite the inconsistencies, the fact that he left the scene, ordered pizza that night, never called the police. it is the duty to call the police. if i fire my gun, it is my duty to call the police. i think this jury not being able to come to a decision, that the best possible outcome is to have another trial, with new prosecutors, and a new jury, and i think that lisa bloom is right. the new prosecutors have got to bring in all of the evidence. we've got to see the other mr. dunn, the mr. dunn that charlie hendricks' eight-year neighbor said existed. the man who threatened other people's lives. the man who may or may not have had other issues with alcohol. the man who said that this country was being taken over by minorities. we ought to see mike at dunn, the one he described in his own jail house letters. >> kerry sanders is outside the courthouse right now. bring us up to date. i just saw a whole group of people walk off, looked like th

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a little dorm room -- 2713. ♪ this magic moment ♪ >>> one of the jurors in the murder trial of michael dunn her silence. the jury convicted dunn of three counts of second -degree murder for shooting into an suv carrying four black teenagers, but they could not agree on the murder charge stemming from the death of 17-year-old jordan davis. we sat down with the woman known as juror 8. >> i never once thought about this is a black kid and that is a white guy, because that is not the case. >> and so the people who say, here is another white guy who got away with shooting and killing a black kid, what would you tell them? >> i would tell them that they really should acknowledge themselves. >> reporter: she is setting the record straight. sg>> i wanted to bring justice whoever it was. >> reporter: the 21-year-old was juror 8 in the michael dunn m d murder trial, and she sat down exclusively with cnn and the case and the heated deliberations. what was it like inside of the deliberation room? >> it was wild. >> reporter: wild as? >> well, it was like shout iing and a lot of yelling. >> reporter: an

announced it was deadlocked on a first degree murder charge against florida software developer michael dunn, the question so many have asked is what happened? yes, dunn was convicted of three counts of attempted murder for firing at a car with fourteens inside after an argument over loud music, but on the most serious charge, alleging the murder of 17-year-old jordan davis, the jurors could not agree. tonight in an abc news exclusive, we know why. abc's byron pitts has just finished the very first interview with one of those jurors for our series "crime and punishment." >> do you think michael dunn got away with murder? >> at this point, i do. myself personally, yes. >> reporter: she was juror number four. valerie is her first name. home care nurse administrator, she asked we not give her full name. for the first time tonight, we're hearing what happened inside the deadlocked jury room where 12 people struggled to decide the fate of admitted killer michael dunn. >> when you went to the deliberating room, you thought michael dunn was guilty? >> yes, sir. >> reporter: of killing a 17-year-old

that's what many are asking about the trial of michael dunn. the only testimony supporting dunn's self-defense claim was his own. and even that was contradicted by other witnesses. dunn was convicted on four other counts. but the jury deadlocked on the charge related to killing jordan davis. and for davis' parents, that's not an abstract legal issue. it's very personal. abc's byron pitts sat down with them for our series "crime and punishment." >> it has been an incredibly long 15 months for you two. it was his father ron davis who got the call. his boy had been shot outside a suburban convenience store the day after thanksgiving. >> all i remember hearing the doctor say is mr. davis, i'm so sorry, we were unable to revive -- >> and then he made that long walk a parent would rather die than ever take. >> and i asked to see my son. they said wait a minute, we don't want you to see him like that. and so they pulled a sheet up to his neck like that. when i saw him, he was laying there peacefully. had a little blood on his nose and his eye was open

and polite, his friends in the car leland and tevin admit to the court that jordan did yell at michael dunn. >> do you recall anything that jordan davis said to the defendant? >> yes, sir. >> what was that? >> [ bleep ]. >> reporter: dunn insists davis had a gun. but when none was found, dunn's self-defense claim falls flat. according to detective musser, investigators found no weapons in the suv the night of the shooting nor anywhere near the gas station parking lot. testimony the jury goes out to deliberate their verdict while jacksonville waits for justice. >> no one person has all the rights. >> waiting on that verdict, there was a lot of tension in the city. >> my twitter page, my phone, everything was blowing up. >> reporter: it takes the jury four days to come to a unanimous decision on three attempted murder charges. >> the state of florida versus michael david dunn. verdict as to count 2, we the jury find the defendant guilty. verdict as to count 3, we the jury find the defendant guilty. verdict as to count 4, we the jury find the defendant guilty of attempted second-degree murder.

and i believe what tevin thompson remembers is jordan saying [ bleep ] to michael dunn. >> according to witnesses there were statements of are you talking to me coming from mr. dunn and i believe a couple witnesses said they heard "you're not going to talk to me that way." >> reporter: suddenly the argument escalates. >> and before anybody knows it dunn is leaning over to his right reaching into his glove box pulling out a taurus 9-millimeter. right about this time tommy comes out of the store. gets into the car, straps himself in, looks over, and sees a gun pointed three feet away. [ gunshots ] >> reporter: it was over in moments. a life gone, lives ruined. jordan's mom tried to cope with her heartache by clinging to the last conversation she had with her beloved son, less than 24 hours before he died. i just want to tell you thank you thank you for loving me. >> tell me about your boy. >> he was not a perfect child by any means, but he was a good young man. always the life of the party. people would say when jordan walks in the room the room lights up. he was humorous. very sensitiv

michael dunn charged with first-degree murder in the death of 17-year-old jordan davis. dunn says he acted in self-defense after the teen threatened him. the jury reconvened this morning arounden 9:00 a.m. eastern time, and just about 30 minutes later actually had questions for the judge. >> the first question -- is the defense of self-defense separate for each person in each count? the answer is, yes. second question -- are we determining if deadly force is justified against each person in each count? the answer is, yes. the third question -- or if we determine deadly force is justified against one person, is it justified against the others? no. self-defense and justifiable use of deadly force applies separately to each count. >>> i'm joined now by cnn legal analyst paul callan. so, paul, good to see you. you know, you're a criminal defense attorney and a former prosecutor. try to get into the minds of those representatives on each side. what might they be thinking as they hear these kinds of questions coming from the jurors? >> well, you know, i think most lawyers watc

that is the issue, and did he represent a threat to michael dunn? they evaluated that and they were torn as to whether or not he was justified in shooting and killing him. that is going to represent a hung jury, but as paul said, he had a volley of the shots, and we heard throughout the course of the case, the surveillance tape, and you heard the surveillance tape, and the pop, pop, pop, and you heard it, additional shots. as to the other shots, there was a continuous course of conduct, but clearly some break there where the jury perhaps in the initial volley may or may not have been justified, but as to the second volley of shots, they did not apparently think that he was justified at all, and that what led to the attempted murder charges sticking and ultimately a declaration of guilt and to the firing into the car. >> and you to also look at the potential serious sentence that he will face under these laws. under florida law, because it is gun charges and very serious charges as i am calculating it, if the sentences are consecutively, there is a r

to the judge saying they have reached a verdict in 4 of the 5 counts against this man, this is michael dunnare dead locked on the charge of first-degree murder. dunn is charged with the murder of 17-year-old jordan davis. after an argument over loud music.

in the michael dunn matter, you have jordan davis and michael dunn in two vehicles.ey never come into contact with each other. the concept that someone needed to shoot nine, ten times to defend themselves is farfetched. >> and then the key witness. remember the friend of trayvon martin that was on the phone with him. >> you don't know the person. trayvon did not know him. >> in the michael dunn case the three young men in the car when jordan davis was killed. >> i went to check and see if he had a pulse. >> and what did you find? >> i did not feel one. >> there was a big difference in the caliber of those witnesses. >> we made a big deal about rachel genteel and how inarticulate she was and how the difficulties understanding what she was saying. but in the dun 234678d trial we have these three young men who have been through a horrific experience. >> and finally the issue of the defendants taking the stand. zimmerman did not and dunn did. >> you said it looked like a shotgun? >> it was thick enough profile. it was a 12 gauge, to my eye, or 20. >> there is no evidence

matt was archie sarah for can we turn to for now where a verdict was reached and trial of michael dunn forty seven year old who shot and killed a teenager jordan davis on saturday the jury in jacksonville found michael dunn guilty of attempted second degree murder for opening fire on pre teens who were in the same suv is four and a vest. however they could not come to a consensus on whether to convict or acquit done on the most serious of charges first degree murder in two thousand of killing. prosecutors argued that don recklessly shot at the teens after complaining about the volume of their music and a convenience store parking lot three had his ten shots struck again as one of encoding to his liver along and has a door knob. however dunn testified that his actions were all in self defense that gave this trend him and that he's not he's on guns sticking out of the vehicle that held davis and his friends. gun was found guilty on four of the five pounds he was part with it now faces up to sixty years behind bars. this causes more i was going to earlier by r t smith was owed on a man wh

michael dunn asked them to turn the music down. tevin thompson, who was sitting in the front passenger seat complied,,urned it down. >> jordan didn't want to turn the music down. said let's turn that back up, i'm tired of people telling me what to do. they turn the music back up. and then there was an exchange of words. >> at that p pnt is whehe michael dunn and jordan davis started exchanging words. and i believe what tevin thompson remembers is jordan saying [ bleep ] to michael dunn. >> according to witnesses there were statements of are you talking to me coming from mr. dunn and i believe a couple witnesses said they heard "you're not going to talk to me that way." >> reporter: suddenly the argument escalates. >> and before anybobo knows it dunn i i leaning o or to his box pulling out a taurus 9-millimeter. right about this time tommy comes out of the store. gets into t t car, straps himself in, looks over, and sees a gun pointed three feet away. [ gunshots ] >> reporter: it was over in moments. a l le g ge, lives ruined. jorda

look what we know about michael du dunn, from the letters from jail, his past history.istory of hate, ignorance, racism, anger. and it's led to his destruction, but even worse, the destruction of a young innocent man who's been taken from his family. no good can come from racism, from this hate and ignorance. we've got to resolve it. we've got to talk about it. we all have to be better. that's what makes america great. the fact that we can work on these issues. we've got to do it. we've got to talk about it. >> mark, everywhere i go, people say, i love the chemistry between you and mark lamont hill. i love listening to you guys and you guys are always disagreeing. i say, no, we don't, but even if we do disagree, we're talking about it in a civil matter which is important, which we all should. and many times i play the guy to mark lamont hill, the devil's advocate, the other way around, however you want to say it. i play devil's advocate so we can have a thoughtful conversation to make people think differently, mark lamont hill and i think we need to do more of that. >>

ask if xeljanz is right for you. >>> breaking news in the michael dunn murder case, there's michael dunnccused of killing a young man over loud music. we have just learned the jury hasached a verdict on four of the five counts, they appear to be hung on the fifth count. the judge has brought the jury in. this is a dynamite charge where he tries to push and shove and cajole the juror into going back into the jury room to deliberate more. >> i am required to read to you an additional jury instruction. i'm going to read that instruction to you now. and then i will provide a copy of it to each one of you when i'm finished reading it. i know that all of you have tried hard to reach a verdict in this case to each of the counts. it apparently has been impossible for you so far. sometimes an early vote before discussion can make it hard to reach an agreement about the case later. the vote not the discussion might make it hard to see all sides of the case. we are all aware that it is legally permissible for a jury to disagree. there are two things a jury can lawfully do, agree on a verdict or dis

seventeen year old boy yes or what convinced you that to me it was unnecessary you didn't think michael dunn had to kill jordan davis i don't believe most of the jurors while valerie thought the dunn should have been found guilty for the marriott murder of jordan davis two jurors thought the dunn was justified in taking the actions that he did so why did those two jurors think that dunn was justified in opening fire on an s.u.v. filled with teenagers after argument over loud music because of florida's stand your ground shoot first law during closing arguments in the dunn case dunn's defense attorney corey stroll repeatedly instructed jurors to look over page twenty five of the jury instructions he said to them i'm going to talk to you a little bit about justifiable use of force is honor's going to instruct you in ages twenty five to twenty eight i ask you when you go back in the jury room go all the way to page twenty five and start there because the law is going to tell you very clearly here's what page twenty five of the jury instructions if michael dunn was not engaged in an unlawful acti

the jury in found michael dunn get on four of the five counts and a mistrial on the highest charge. ng 17-year-old jordan davis in thanksgiving of 2012. they apparently argued over the music coming from the suv. and surveillance video was played inside of the courtroom. dunn said he fired those shots in self defense. and it has been a busy 45 minutes, steve? >> reporter: certainly, harris and with this verdict it is easy to become confused because we are dealing with two different things. a guilty verdict and a mistrial. you have to separate the different counts. michael dunn is likely to go to prison for a long time despite the fact that the jury could not agree if he was guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of 17 year old jordan davis. there is a mistrial to the single charge. but the jury did agree and pronounced him guilty on four of the other charges. three of them are attempted murder. and firing a weapon and another possible 15 years and when the 47 year old computer programmer faces the music in sentencing next month he could be looking at 75 years behind bars,

it was just after michael dunn left the reception that the shooting happened. himself has not commented publicly on his side of the story. but since being in jail he has written many letters. they've now been submitted as evidence. in a letter dated july 14th, presumably to his fiancee, he writes, "i just got off the phone with you and we were talking about how racist the blacks are up here. the more time i am exposed to these people the more prejudiced against them i become." in another letter to his grandmother he complains, "the blacks seem to be calling the shots in the media and the courts." in yet another letter he acknowledges comparisons to the trayvon martin shooting. "cory, my attorney, says i have a much stronger case of self-defense than zimmerman does." this case does seem to have a lot of parallels to the george zimmerman trial. right down to the prosecutors. >> jordan davis gasping for air. >> reporter: these are the same two who tried to get a conviction against zimmerman. >> i don't see how stand your ground applies there. but in this case, wit

argument ensued verbal michael dunn backed off a little bit closer wrote down as rolled up his window in the. for about a minute or so when the other kid came back in the car from the store he decided that he was going to michael dunn was going to roll down the window again and say you know are you talking to me you guys are still talking to me and i had a concealed weapon in his car and started shooting at the current shooting at my son and he shot my son twice and as the car was pulling away trying to get away from him he was continuing to shoot at the car with these children seventeen year old children in the car and pull disappear yards away he still shot two more bullets in the back of the car trying to kill these kids which to me as a father i can't believe in our society today that someone is trying to kill children but you know i see things that happen on the news and sometimes you know know if it's going to hit home or not but here it hit home for me because it has torn jordan from me and his mother and when you have a teenager someone at home who's missing could break your h

there's movement now on the michael dunn trial. the loud music trial down in florida in jacksonville, florida. back with our correspondents and our analysts right after a quick break. there's this kid. coach calls her a team player. she's kind of special. she makes the whole team better. he's the kind of player that puts the puck, horsehide, bullet. right where it needs to be. coach calls it logistics. he's a great passer. dependable. a winning team has to have one. somebody you can count on. somebody like my dad. this is my dad. somebody like my mom. my grandfather. i'm very pround of him. her. them. and his new boss told him two things -- cook what you love, and save your money. joe doesn't know it yet, but he'll work his way up from busser to waiter to chef before opening a restaurant specializing in fish and game from the great northwest. he'll start investing early, he'll find some good people to help guide him, and he'll set money aside from his first day of work to his last, which isn't rocket science. it's just common sense

and he was in the back seat in the passenger side in his best friend next to and a guy drove up michael dunn and brought out his window and beef and told his girlfriend for she are because i hate that thug music you know and so he kind of profile them you know. and so he told them to cut down below after the girl from going in the store and of course like teenagers i mean if you're not their parent they're not really to listen to you and so. they didn't turn it down and he got into a verbal altercation with my son and my son never got out of the car you know here the window half way down in michael dunn he was in his car and argument ensued verbal am i could burn backed off a little bit close the road i was rolled up his window in the. for about a minute or so when the other kid came back in the car from the store he decided that he was going to michael dunn was going to roll down the window again and say you know are you talking to me you guys are still talking to me and i had a concealed weapon in his car and started shooting at the car and shooting at my son and he shot my son twice and a

and we turn to florida where a verdict was reached in the trial of michael dunn the forty seven year old who shot and killed teenager jordan davis on saturday the jury in jacksonville found michael dunn guilty of attempted second degree murder for opening fire on three teens who were in the same as you vs jordan davis however they could not come to a consensus on whether to convict or acquit dunn of the most serious of charges first degree murder in the two thousand and twelve killing prosecutors argued that dunn recklessly shot at the teens after complaining about the volume of their music in a convenience store parking lot three of his ten shots struck davis one of them cutting through his liver along and his aorta however dunn testified that his actions were all in self-defense that davis threatened him and that he thought he saw a gun sticking out of the vehicle that held davis and his friends dunn was found guilty on four of the five counts he was charged with and now faces up to sixty years behind bars to discuss this more i was joined earlier by our tease nicholas o'donovan wh

florida man who shot and killed an unarmed teen will break down the verdict in the case and ask if michael dunn will face a retrial for the death of jordan davis all of that and more later in the show. it's monday february seventeenth four pm in washington d.c. i'm lynn neary david and you're watching our team america we begin today with the news that an attorney who represents former government contractor edward snowden says she was detained and questioned by heathrow airport border force in london while going through customs just one raid act was traveling along with former n.s.a. whistleblower thomas drake to meet with julian a songe at the ecuadorian embassy in london yesterday right back tweeted after her experience saying i'm fine he throws a border force was just trying to intimidate me who was at work snowden who do you know him where is bradley manning to talk about what happened exactly i was joined earlier by just one radar herself from london and i first asked her to tell me about what that experience was like. yeah i don't i mean everyone has to go through customs i get that and us

the gas station wrote down the license plate and went to michael dunn's home and then brought him out the issue of race was largely ignored in the trial. dunn wrote to family members that he thinks the justice system is unfair and biased to african-americans. he wrote -- but that was never brought up in court. >> there is great sensitivity to bring up race in the zimmerman case and in this case, we have to ask questions why. are notthe south, they ready to talk about these issues . i think the state prosecution is concerned to bring it up. these statements and michael dunn's actions show that he was a threat. that he willthing serve at least 60 years in prison. of these statements, it is clear he is a threat. >> the attorney for jordan davis's family released a video formerael dunn's neighbor. he said he had a history of violent behavior and cocaine use and insurance fraud and even bragged about once putting a hit out on someone. his first wife said that he had held a gun to her head and threatened to kill her. this is an interview of his former neighbor. >> he acted like he was smart

i think on retrial the prosecution is going to focus heavily on the cross-examination of michael dunn him than they did in the first trial. >> beside the letter, dunn's phone calls were also considered irrelevant. here is what he said on one phone call to his fiancee. >> so being in a room by myself kind of sucks, but i guess it'd would be better than being in a room with them animals. >> well, you know, they probably wouldn't think too highly about what is going on. and so it is best. but i can only imagine. >> now, it's better than being in a room with those animals. couldn't the prosecution when they were cross examining -- when they were direct examining the fiancee, who was their witness, when he said he never mentioned a gun, couldn't they have played this phone call with him and her from jail saying even on this call he never mentioned a gun, and let them also hear the kinds of thoughts this man had by putting this into the trial? >> no. the judge would not have allowed that in. that statement would have been more prejudicial than probative. they could have gotten easily in the

they were soon confronted by michael dunn, a middle-aged white man who pulled in next to them in the parking lot. dunn demanded the boys turn down the music they were playing, and became angry when they refused. he pulled his gun from his glove box and shot at their car 10 times, even as they tried to drive away from the danger. the shots rang out 3 and a half minutes after dunn had arrived. one of boys, 17-year-old jordan davis, was killed. today we will spend the hour with his parents, lucia mcbath and ron davis. >> trayvon martin's father text me, i want to welcome you to a club none of us want to be in. >> it is time to pick up where dr. king left off. >> all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the leftist, anti-austerity syriza party has swept to victory in greece. syriza won 149 seats in the 300-seat parliament, two short of an absolute majority. this marks the first time since the economic crisis in 2009 that a member of the 19-nation euro zone will be led by a party rejecting german-backed austerity.

michael dunn got into an argument over loud music with four teenagers. sitting inside a parked suv. dunn fired ten shots at the vehicle. 17-year-old jordan davis was killed. dunn says the killing was in self-defense and that the teen threatened him with a gun. this case centers on one question, will the jury believe mr. dunn was really in fear? today during the closing arguments the state repeatedly focus td on the fact that no gun was ever found. >> on november 23, 2012 when this defendant shot and killed jordan davis there was no gun in that durango. there was no stick. there was no bat. there was no lead pipe. there was no gun. he makes no mention of the firearm. there were no shots every fired at this defendant. i think he said, well, there was one gun for them so he was shooting at all of them. but as i stated earlier, there was no gun in that durango. it didn't happen. there was no gun. >> the police blamed police for not finding the gun. >> did the detectives close the plaza down? no. did they secure the scene? they haven't call k-9 to find the gun. why didn't they search the

when you think about this vert recently with michael dunn, this stand your ground law allowed him to criminal liability for the death of jordan dunn just as george zimmerman escaped criminal liability for the death of trayvon martin. that's a problem, what messages we are sending out. when you think about these verdicts. when you kill an unarmed black child, you don't go to jail, but when you shoot and you miss attempted murder on the other occupants on the car you get held accountable. marissa alexander in jacksonville florida she shot a warning shot on the ceiling. she says stand your ground. what message are we send something don't miss? is that what stand your ground law means? don't miss? if you miss, you get off. if you kill a young black man, you go home, that's just troubling. >> do you think the verdict here would have been different had michael dunn been black and jordan davis been white? >> no question about it, this is an equal justice issue, where else does it work in america if you reverse the rolls and you have jordan davis killing unarmed michael dunn, or you have tra

>>> crime and punishment tonight, the murder trial of michael dunn in florida, prosecutors rested theirhe defense called witnesses. dunn is charged with first degree murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old jordan davis in a confrontation at a gas station. now, he admits he shot the teen in a dispute over loud music, but claims he fired in self-defense, he said he thought he saw a shotgun in the suv davis was riding in. no weapon was ever found. seeing as martin savage was inside the courtroom today. the details about the shooting of jordan davis were so intense his parents for the first time had to leave the courtroom. jurors were shown photographs, x-rays in the blood stained clothes, the 17-year-old was wearing when he was killed. the prosecution's final witness, former associate medical examener stacy simmons, testifying davis was shot three times, twice in the leg, it was a bullet to the abdomen that killed him. >> right about here is where the bullet entered. it entered at the actual border. over here it perforated the right lung and continued on behind the heart and in front o

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do you think michael dunn got away with murder at this point. i i do myself personally yes when you went to the deliberating room you thought michael dunn was guilty yes or of killing seventeen year old boy yes or what convinced you that to me it was unnecessary he didn't think michael dunn had to kill jordan davis i don't believe most of the jurors she told us agreed with her you all first took your first poll and guilt or innocence on the murder of jordan davis what was the vote tended to ten people thinking he was guilty yes i thought it was going to be killed valerie says that was a key moment in the trial dunn's insistence he believed he was in danger that in this final directive from the defense attorney check page twenty five start with page twenty five page twenty five reads the use of deadly force is justifiable that michael dunn reasonably believes that the force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm valerie went on to say that we all believe that there was another way out another option for him to the actions tha

mattress discounters >> a jury in jacksonville, florida is now deciding the guilt of innocence of michael dunnjurors began deliberating late this afternoon. we've learned they've wrapped up for the night without reaching a verdict. they'll resume deliberations tomorrow morning at 10:00. dunn is charged in murder in the shooting death of a 17-year-old man, jordan davis at a gas station in 2012. he claims he acted in self-defense during a confrontation with a group of teenagers in an suv. martin savidge was inside the courtroom today. >> reporter: in closing arguments, prosecutors said 17-year-old jordan davis may have a big mouth, but he never had a weapon. >> let me be very clear. on november 23rd, 2012, when this defendant shot and killed jordan davis, there was no gun in that durango. there was no stick. there was no bat. there was no lead pipe. there was no gun. >> reporter: 47-year-old michael dunn says it all started when he exchanged words over loud music coming from an suv carrying four teens. he says he pulled his weapon after he thought he saw the teens, at least one of them, point so

to what one of the jurors had to say about the case. >> the verdict in the michael dunn murder trial is raising questions. >> the jury delivered a verdict. >> he's accused of killing a teenager. >> dunn fired ten rounds. >> the shots killed 17-year-old jordan davis. >> dunn says he shot davis in self-defense. >> no gun was ever found. >> no weapon, however, was ever found at the scene. >> this was a mixed verdict. >> guilty on four of five charge against dunn. >> that's three counts of attempted murder. >> and one count of firing into the vehicle. >> jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict. >> the jury was unable to come to a decision on the charge of first degree murder. >> retrying the case is something that we've all had to do. >> the prosecutor said she would retry the case on the outstanding charge. >> and we'll give it the same full attention. >> he had no duty to retreat and had the right to stand his ground proop. >> for the stand your ground law -- >> something that's become sort of a matter of confusion over this case. >> stand your ground. >> stand your ground, the prin

and they are indeed a jury of michael dunn's peers. and even with that, even with maybe their biases that they may have as far as culture is concerned. maybe not connecting with jordan and his culture, but we can still have a society where we can depend on them and count on them to render a verdict based on the facts of the case and the witnesses that they hear and not on any biases that they have. so i'm elated that we have this time. i think it's something for the history books. i think it's something that our young people all across this nation should understand and view, that this is really great for our nation, that we can maybe have a start of having justice and making sure that justice is equal and we don't have to worry about the makeup of the jury. i joined the human rights network, and we go to different places around the country where there's violations of human rights and i know there's a lot of people that have been unable to attain the justice that me an lucy have for our son. so immediately i'll be going to valdosta, geo

with how it all unfolded. >> reporter: after about 30 hours of dleliberations, the juy in the michael dunntrial returned a partial verdict. >> your dunn, your having been convicted of counts two, three and four by a jury -- >> reporter: guilty on four counts, including three of attempted second-degree murder in the 2012 shooting outside a jacksonville gas station that killed 17-year-old jordan davis. but on the murder charge, no verdict. >> based on the jury's inability to reach a verdict as to count one, i will declare that

you have to buy michael dunn not guilty of every cow in dykeman every lesser included you don't even start your discussion they met their burden of beyond a reasonable doubt but the prosecution sees it much differently they argue that there was no reason for done to think his life was in danger when this defendant shot and killed jordan davis there was no gun in the rain there was no death there was no bag there was no life high. there was no gun. artie's nicholas l. donovan joined us earlier with more on this controversial murder trial and what happened inside the courtroom well it was day nine day of closing arguments in the michael dunn trial we heard prosecutors say that for dunn the shooting was just simply a target practice prosecutor erin wolfson was in charge of deliver in the state's closing argument and she said that when michael dunn pull up to the s.u.v. with jordan davis and his friends were as you said listen to music his blood literally started to boil obviously the state is trying to depict a picture of michael dunn where he was some way triggered by some sort of irra

michael dunn repeatedly tried to convince the jury he acted in self-defense while prosecutors repeatedly ripped into him as a cold blooded killer. this is a case that touches the two classic american hot buttons of race and guns. and nbc's ryan owen has this report for our series "crime and punishment." >> i'm looking out the window and i said you're not going to kill me you son of a [ bleep ] and i shot. >> reporter: in his own words and in riveting detail -- >> it wasn't just my life i was worried about, you know? >> reporter: admitted killer michael dunn recreates for the jury moments that led to the shooting death of 17-year-old jordan davis. >> did you notice any differences about your body physically? >> i'm shaking. i'm quivering like a leaf. >> reporter: prosecutors call it cold blooded murder. dunn maintains it was self-defense. it started when dunn and his fiancee rhonda rower pulled into a jacksonville, florida, gas station in november 2012. they parked in ex-to an suv full of teens. >> body panels on the suv were rattling. my rear-view mirror was shaking. my eardrums were vib