Jurors in the Brooklyn murder trial of the teenager accused in the sex-charged stabbing death of WABC newsman George Weber yesterday told the judge they were deadlocked but will return today for further deliberations.
In the middle of their second day of deliberations, the jurors sent out their note telling Judge Neil Firetog for the second time that they were having difficulties.
Earlier yesterday the jury asked Firetog a second time to explain “reasonable doubt.”
John Katehis, 18, is charged with stabbing Weber, 47, more than 50 times in the March 2009 slaying.
Katehis, then 16, was at Weber’s home on Henry Street in Boerum Hill for an erotic encounter after the two made contact through an ad on Craigslist and Katehis agreed to smother Weber for $60.