ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) -- A judge will have to decide whether a former eastern Missouri sheriff's deputy and state correctional officer gets life in prison or the death penalty for a double homicide.
A jury last week found Marvin Rice guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of his ex-girlfriend, 32-year-old Annette Durham, and second-degree murder in the shooting death of 39-year-old Steven Strotkamp.
But the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the jury on Saturday couldn't decide a punishment. The penalty will now be decided by Judge Kelly Parker. A punishment hearing is Oct. 6.
Rice was a former Dent County deputy. He was convicted of killing Durham and her boyfriend in 2011 during a child custody dispute. He fled the scene of the killings and led authorities on a high-speed chase. That chase ended at the Capitol Plaza Hotel in Jefferson City, where he was taken into custody after a shootout with law officers.
Rice still faces charges for assault of a law officer, armed criminal action and resisting arrest for actions during his capture. That case was moved on a change of venue from Cole County to Callaway County.