PHOENIX (NEWSnet/AP) — Prosecutors said Monday they will not retry a case of an Arizona rancher in the fatal shooting of a Mexican man.

Jurors in the trial of George Alan Kelly were unable to reach a unanimous decision on a verdict after more than two days of deliberation. On April 22, Santa Cruz County Superior Court Judge Thomas Fink declared a mistrial.

Santa Cruz County Attorney’s Office had the option to retry Kelly or to drop the case. Fink dismissed the case as requested by prosecutors.

Kelly had been on trial for nearly a month in Nogales, which is on the border with Mexico. The rancher had been charged with second-degree murder in the Jan. 30, 2023, killing of 48-year-old Gabriel Cuen-Buitimea, outside Nogales, Arizona.

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