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On Thursday afternoon, almost three years after a fire tore through the Oakland artist collective known as the Ghost Ship, killing 36 people, a jury handed down its verdict in the trial of two men prosecutors sought to hold accountable for the deaths.

One of the men, Max Harris, was acquitted on all of the 36 charges of involuntary manslaughter that he faced. The jury couldn’t come to a decision about Derick Almena, the so-called master tenant of the warehouse.

[Read more about the verdict.]

Family members of the victims said they were stunned by the outcome — the culmination of a monthslong trial and deliberations that were abruptly restarted last month after the judge dismissed three jurors for unspecified misconduct.