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A Garden Grove man who recorded himself fatally shooting a homeless man he said was blocking his path remained free this week after a jury deadlocked in his manslaughter trial.

Craig Sumner Elliott, 70, was charged with one count of involuntary manslaughter for the 2023 shooting of Antonio Garcia Avalos.

In charging him, Orange County prosecutors said the confrontation and shooting were a tragic example of someone trying to take the law into their own hands, yet the jury could not reach a unanimous verdict, deadlocking Wednesday 11-1 to convict, according to Kimberly Edds, a spokesperson for the district attorney’s office.

According to prosecutors, Elliott and Avalos got into a

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