Testifying in his own defense, North Miami Police Officer Jonathon Aledda insisted he honestly mistook an autistic man holding a silver toy truck for a gunman holding another man hostage. The soft-spoken officer said he had no choice but to fire three bullets, accidentally hitting Charles Kinsey, the supposed hostage.

One sole juror did not believe Aledda.

The other five voted to acquit Aledda of all four charges in a case that garnered international headlines amid intense scrutiny on U.S. police shootings. But after a full day of deliberation, jurors on Friday could not reach a unanimous verdict on three of the four counts, leaving a Miami-Dade judge to declare a mistrial.

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The jury did acquit Aledda of one misdemeanor count of culpable negligence for shooting at the autistiche acted like a reasonable police officer should have in such a nerve-wracking situation,” Lopez told the Miami Herald afterward. “I thought he was not guilty from the moment he took the stand.”

The hung jury in the Aledda case came three years after the July 2016 shooting, which unfolded against the backdrop of a series of controversial killings of black men by police around the United States. The shooting also roiled North Miami, leading to the ousting of the city’s police chief and the firing of the commander on the scene.

Rios’ family and Kinsey are also suing the city of North Miami.

Rios, then 26, is a severely autistic man with the mental capacity of a child. He had run away from the MACtown group home and sat down