NAU Shooting Trial Ends In Mistrial

It's a mistrial in the case against Steven Jones, the former Northern Arizona University student accused of shooting into a crowd in 2015, killing one person and wounding three others. The jury had tried - without success - for one week to reach a verdict.

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Jones, who was charged with murder, manslaughter, aggravated assault, and negligent homicide, had argued that he had acted in self-defense.

Jones's lawyers had argued for a mistrial last week after prosecutors, in their closing argument, told jurors that Jones had only argued self defense after he was in the police station under arrest.

His lawyers pointed out that Jones had claimed self defense while still at the scene, and then, again, in the police car but prosecutors had managed to rule the statements inadmissible as hearsay.

While the judge denied the mistrial bid, he did inform the jurors of what Jones had said.

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