Deliberations continue over fatal road-rage confrontation

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By Associated Press

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) — Jurors will continue deliberating Monday in the retrial of a Hayden man charged with hitting and killing a woman during a road-rage confrontation.

Jurors deliberated about four hours Friday on whether 51-year-old Jonathan W. Ellington intentionally killed 41-year-old Vonette Larsen of Athol on New Year's Day 2006.

He was previously convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 25 years in prison, but the Supreme Court cited prosecutorial misconduct in ordering a new trial in May.

Prosecutors contend Ellington intentionally ran over Larsen. Ellington's public defender says Joel and Vonette Larsen and their two daughters "hunted" Ellington, leading to the confrontation and that Vonette Larsen's death was an accident that happened during a chaotic situation.

Joel Larsen acknowledged shooting at Ellington's SUV before Vonette Larsen was run over.
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