Riverside County prosecutors will decide in the coming weeks whether to retry a convicted felon accused of second-degree murder for directly conspiring with a friend to burglarize a Desert Hot Springs house, where the friend was fatally shot by an occupant.
After two days of deliberations, a Riverside jury announced Monday that a unanimous decision on the murder charge against 24-year-old Nathan Alger of Desert Hot Springs was unattainable, prompting Superior Court Judge Tim Hollenhorst to declare a mistrial on that count.
Jurors, however, convicted Alger of firearm assault, shooting at an inhabited dwelling and sentence-enhancing allegations of abetting a first-degree burglary and using a gun during the commission of a felony. They acquitted him of attempted murder…