A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has declared a mistrial in the case of Kane Carter, who was accused of murdering a gang member and an innocent teenager who was passing by in his parents91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™ vehicle.

The jury came back Tuesday saying it was deadlocked after five days of deliberations in Carter91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™s trial.

He was charged with the second-degree murders of 15-year-old Alfred Wong and 23-year-old Kevin Whiteside after they were killed in an exchange of gunfire along Vancouver91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™s busy Broadway avenue in January 2018.

The Crown told the jury that Carter was protecting a gang associate at a nearby restaurant when he began shooting, killing both Whiteside and Wong.

Carter91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™s defence lawyer, Richard Fowler, told jurors there were significant gaps in time in the Crown91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™s theory of what happened that day.

The jurors could not reach a unanimous decision and now prosecutors must decide whether to try Carter for a second time.