Jurors deliberated for 11 hours Thursday and Friday before convicting the man who fatally shot Dan Markel in broad daylight in 2014 and deadlocking on the woman prosecutors tried to prove was the go-between in an alleged murder-for-hire plot.

Sigfredo Garcia was found guilty of first-degree murder following nearly two weeks of testimony in front of a Leon County jury of 10 women and two men.

After that decision was announced, jurors briefly continued deliberating on whether to convict Katherine Magbanua, his co-defendant and the mother of their two children. After sending signals earlier in the day they were struggling with reaching a unanimous decision, they officially deadlocked, prompting Leon Circuit Judge James C. Hankinson to declare a mistrial.

Magbanua burst into tears as the verdict against Garcia was read. He leaned across the defendant desk and said, "I love you, Katie."

As they were dismissed following reading of the second verdict, a few jurors wept.

Magbanua will remain in jail as a charged co-conspirator, and the state will try her case again. A pretrial hearing is set for Oct. 22. Her attorneys Chris DeCoste and Tara Kawass, were not available to comment.

Garcia, who prosecutors said was the gunman, faces the death penalty. Jurors will reconvene Monday to consider his punishment.

'We're going to regroup'

Assistant State Attorney Georgia Cappleman, who led the prosecution, said she was disappointed in the mistrial. But, she added, "We're going to regroup and try to do it better next time."

She noted that Markel's family members, who attended the entire trial, were pleased with the presentation of the case.

"They know we made our best efforts," she said. "Sometimes jurors just can’t reach a unanimous conclusion. We’re all willing … to do it again if that’s what’s needed.”

Markel’s family sat solemnly in the courtroom pews as the verdict for Garcia was read. Phil Markel put his head in his hand as his wife, Ruth Markel, and their daughter Shelly watched in silence.

The Markel family said in a statement they were relieved to have some semblance of justice.

“After waiting five long years, we are relieved that at least one of the people responsible for Danny’s murder was convicted today and are grateful for the tireless efforts of law enforcement and the State Attorney’s Office,” said their attorneys Orin Snyder and Matthew Benjamin. “Yet justice was only partially served. In light of the mountain of evidence presented by the State Attorney’s Office, we are confident Katherine Magbanua will be re-tried and convicted.”

They alluded to the ongoing investigation into their son’s murder and their wish to see their two grandsons, who they haven’t seen since 2016.

“As all who followed this trial know, there is more work to be done to ensure that everyone responsible for Danny’s murder is held accountable,” they said. “Until that day comes, we will continue to fight for complete justice and to be reunited with our grandchildren, Danny’s two young boys, whom we love and miss dearly.”

State Attorney Jack Campbell said he was "incredibly proud" of the hard work by the trial team, the Tallahassee Police Department, the FBI and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. He said he couldn't comment on the jury's actions other than to say, "I appreciate their hard work, and they still have some work to do."

Campbell declined to say whether the conviction of Garcia got prosecutors any closer to charging members of the Adelson family, whom they believe hired Garcia and another man, Luis Rivera, to kill Markel.

Prosecutors said that following the highly contentious divorce of Dan Markel and Wendi Adelson and the subsequent court battle over the custody of their two children, his in-laws financed the plot to kill him. However, they have never charged her brother, Charlie Adelson, or her mother, Donna Adelson, who deny involvement.

Charlie Adelson dated Magbanua around the time Markel was killed, though she also maintained a sexual relationship with Garcia.

The verdict marked the second conviction won by the State Attorney's Office in the case, which drew international attention. Luis Rivera, a gang leader who accompanied Garcia from Miami to Tallahassee to kill Markel, is already in prison as part of a plea deal that led to his testimony against the two.

'The prosecution couldn’t prove its theory'

Markel was found the morning of July 18, 2014, shot twice in the head in the garage of his Trescott Drive home. He had gone to the gym that morning and dropped his two sons off at daycare.

Investigators later found footage of a Toyota Prius following Markel around the Premier Fitness parking lot, and the car was spotted by a neighbor at the house and later recorded by StarMetro bus cameras driving to and from the crime scene.

That led them to Garcia, Rivera and Magbanua in South Florida.

For much of Friday morning, jurors asked Leon Circuit Judge James C. Hankinson for help interpreting a legal theory that makes anyone who aided in or benefited from a crime just as culpable as those who actually carried it out.

Signs of trouble with Magbanua’s case emerged early on as they asked about the possibility of a hung jury.

Garcia also was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder but acquitted of solicitation of murder. Saam Zangeneh, his lead attorney, inferred it was because they thought he agreed to kill Markel without money in mind.

"The only thing I can think of is that they thought my client committed this murder out of his love for Ms. Magabanua," Zangeneh said. "If he’s not doing this for money, he must be doing this for love.

“We don’t ever question a jury,” he added. “Our job is to present a case.”

Zangeneh said based on his client’s acquittal on solicitation charges, the state’s theory of a murder-for-hire appeared debunked. Zangeneh admitted there were parts of the case he’d never discussed with Garcia but since his arrest in May 2016, he has remained steadfast in not giving information to prosecutors that could lead them to the Adelsons.

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“From the first day he was arrested until right before trial, he said, ‘No, I don’t want to talk about it,’” he said.

Charlie Adelson’s attorney David Markus, in an email after the verdicts were read, said he hoped Garcia’s conviction brought the Markel family some semblance of justice. He added that from what he saw, he did not see any evidence that the state had a case against any of the Adelsons.

The mistrial against Magbanua only bolstered that position, he added.

“The prosecution couldn’t prove its theory on Katie after three years of really thorough investigation and preparation,” he said. “This is why they have not charged Charlie and his family — the case simply isn’t there. After the hung jury, its prospects have gone down not up.”

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