Mr. Pride chose to shoot, firing a single shot that killed Officer Peter Figoski in the early morning hours of Dec. 12, 2011, prosecutor Kenneth Taub told a jury on the first day of a joint murder trial against Mr. Pride and Michael Valez, the alleged getaway driver that night.
After just less than 10 hours of deliberations over three days, the jury of 10 women and two men sided with Mr. Pride and his lawyers, who maintained their client fired the gun accidentally while fleeing a basement apartment of a Cypress Hills home in the early morning hours of Dec. 12, 2011.