KATY, Texas – A jury went home for the weekend after deliberating all of Friday in the case of a Katy teenager who shot her father.
The trial is scheduled to resume Monday morning. The jury informed the judge on Thursday they were deadlocked, but the judge told them to keep working.
In April of 2009, investigators say the girl pulled out a gun and fatally shot her dad while he slept in their Katy home.
The defense claims the dad had walked in on the girl while she was in the bathtub earlier that day and had threatened her.
“That morning, he threatened and made her fear that he was going to kill her or sexually assault her, and she shot him,” defense attorney Windi Akins Pastorini told the jury on January 24.
The girl’s attorney said the teenager had been abused since she was six. He alleged that the father started out whipping the teen’s naked buttocks, but it eventually escalated into choking, slapping and sexually assaulting her.
The defense says the prosecution wants to send the girl away to prison for 40 years for her role in her father’s death.
Attorneys on both sides say it isn’t clear which way the jury is leaning.
