At a trial last month, a state district court jury in Tarrant County could not agree on whether Koby Burkhart was guilty or innocent of murder in a killing at a traffic light in southeast Fort Worth.
After a full day of deliberation on a Friday and a return to the jury room for a couple of hours on the Monday that followed, the panel hung on the indictment’s top count in the January 2025 death of Ricky Langs in Stop Six. Judge George Gallagher declared a mistrial.
Police concluded that in rage, Burkhart, then 22, shot to death Langs, who was 62, for honking a car’s horn at him…