Jury selection has been postponed until December in the retrial of a one-time Kansas University student accused of killing a former Lawrence resident in a 2011 hit-and-run.

The process was originally scheduled to begin Monday, Aug. 4.

Adam Lloyd Shepard, 33, formerly of Topeka, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 35-year-old Spencer Schott, a 1993 Lawrence High School graduate. Both men were living in Jacksonville Beach, Fla., at the time of the incident.

In April, a judge for the 4th Judicial Circuit declared a mistrial when the jury deadlocked following Shepard’s two-week trial in Florida.

Shepard, who attended KU from 2000 to 2002, will now be tried again on the first-degree murder charges against him.

In the first trial, prosecutors argued that Shepard intentionally ran over Schott across the street from the apartment complex where Schott lived. Shepard’s defense attorney claims the death was an accident.

In Florida, a defendant convicted of first-degree murder is sentenced to an automatic life term without parole.