A deadlocked jury prompted a mistrial Saturday (July 22) in the South Florida trial of rapper YNW Melly on charges that he murdered two of his friends five years ago.

The 12-member panel could not reach a unanimous verdict after three days of deliberations. Broward County prosecutors, who had been seeking the death penalty, will likely choose to retry the case with a new jury. A unanimous verdict is required to convict or acquit a defendant.

Broward Circuit Judge John Murphy twice asked the jurors to keep deliberating after they said they were deadlocked, but relented after they came back a third time.

Prosecutors say YNW Melly, whose legal name is Jamell Demons, shot Anthony Williams and Christopher Thomas Jr. while they were all inside a Jeep. Williams and Thomas were both part of the YNW collective, known respectively as YNW Sakchaser and YNW Juvy.

Prosecutors said the shooting was part of a gang action, while defense attorneys said that claim lacks credibility because Demons and the victims were close friends.

According to prosecutors, Demons, Williams and Thomas were riding in a Jeep driven by Cortland Henry, known as YNW Bortlen, after a recording session in Fort Lauderdale on Oct. 26, 2018. They say Demons fatally shot Williams and Thomas. Henry is charged as an accomplice in the case and will be tried separately.

After killing Williams and Thomas, prosecutors said Demons and Henry drove the bodies to an area near the Everglades, where they shot at the back and passenger sides of Henry’s Jeep from the outside to make it look like Williams and Thomas had been the victims of a drive-by shooting.

But prosecutors say ballistics tests show the pair were shot from inside the Jeep.

Defense lawyers focused on the fact that the gun was never recovered. They also told jurors that YNW Melly had no apparent motive for the crime.

YNW Melly had his breakout in 2017 and went on to work with Kanye West on “Mixed Personalities,” which was released in January 2019, a month before Demons, 24, was arrested on murder charges.

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Attention, anime fans: ColourPop’s Naruto collection is here! But it might not be in stock for very long.

Inspired by the wildly popular manga series, the Naruto x ColourPop collection features gel eyeliners, eyeshadows and more available in glittering golds, neutrals and vibrant pops of color including metallic blue, yellow and pink inspired by the anime characters, Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno and Sasuke Uchiha.

The collection starts at $9-$12, for gel eyeliners, metallic eye shadows, glitter gel and Chakra Lux Lip Oil. The larger eyeshadow palettes are priced from $24-$32 and the full collection is $89.

The NARUTO x ColourPop Collection is currently available on ColourPop.com. The collection will be available at Ulta Beauty starting July 30th.

Naruto, the popular manga series created by Masashi Kishimoto in 1999, has sold over 250 million copies globally. The Naruto franchise became an animated series and film franchise and has expanded into video games, board games, clothes, shoes, backpacks and lots of other merchandise for anime fans to collect.

The manga was adapted into an animated series in 2002, which aired for five seasons. A sequel series, Naruto: Shippuden, debuted in 2007 and ended in 2017. If you’re interested in streaming Naruto, episodes are available on Crunchyroll, Netflix, Peacock, Prime Video and Hulu.

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The full collection includes Naruto Pressed Powder, Super Shock Shadows, BFF Crème Gel Liners, Chakra Lux Lip Oil, and Gold Dust Gliterally Obsessed Body Glitter Gel. Another popular choice, the Ninja-in-Training Set ($32) includes the pressed powder palette and glitter gel.

Leigh-Anne Pinnock is gearing up to release more solo music in the imminent future, and sat down with Billboard News to chat about what fans can expect from her upcoming LP, and why she chose to release “Don’t Say Love” as a first single.

“‘Don’t Say Love’ came in the beginning of the process, always knew it was a banger,” Pinnock tells Billboard News host Tetris Kelly. “It kind of became obvious quite quickly that it needed to be the first single, especially with the meaning of it, the idea of wanting to be love wholeheartedly at 100 percent, I think it was really relatable to me, and I just, ‘Yeah, this needs to be the first one.’”

As for what her future album may sounds like, Pinnock gave a few hints. “I’m an R&B girl. Everyone knows that I’m an old-school R&B girl,” she says, citing Jagged Edge, Dru Hill, Immature and Ginuwine as some of her favorite artists in the genre. “At the same time, though, I really do want to incorporate the other genres that I love, so we have some reggae stuff on there. I think I am a pop girl at heart, too, so I just feel like that stamp is always going to be in the mix.”

Though being a solo artist is a different experience from being in a girl group, the “Don’t Say Love” singer is taking it in stride. “I don’t have my sisters to fall back on, so I do really miss the sisterhood,” she notes. “[It also] feels so freeing and a sense of empowerment to stand on my own and know I’m doing this for me. It just feels like the right time. It feels so right to me.”

Leigh-Anne — as one third of Little Mix — earned two top 10 albums Billboard 200 with 2013’s DNA (No. 4) and 2014’s Salute (No. 6). Single “Black Magic” peaked at No. 67 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2015.

Watch Pinnock’s full interview with Billboard News above.