"Minorities are taking over America", so it wouldn't surprise me if he was attempting to kill all 4.

I am confident he did not act to protect any of the four.

And if I was guessing... but see, as a juror I cannot guess.

Anyone he shot, that fact right there is evidnce that the gun was pointed at them when fired. When someone is not shot, however, we lack that primary evidence of intent and get into guessing.

His malice is manifest. I think his actions vis-a-vis the other three are clearly at least assault with a deadly weapon. His actions are extraordinarily awful. But attempted murder with a gun reqires a speciffic intent and speciffic actions relating to each charge of attempted murder.

That is different from, say, a bomb. If he had thrown a hand grenade in the car it would be more clear-cut because, unlike a gun, a hand grenade doesn't involve much aiming.

Yet he was taking an action that he knew could result in the death of any one of them, as far as I am concerned that is three clear cases of attempted murder and one case of second degree murder. I don't see clear evidence of premeditation so I would have a hard time convicting on first degree but I would definitely convict on second degree murder and three counts of attempted murder, I also wish I could convict on hate crime charges because the racial motivation seems obvious.

I think the real problem as to why this verdict is taking so long is that there are likely one or more jurors who support this murdering asshole just like many sick individuals supported George Zimmerman.

how this should have been charged as a hate crime but that Angela Corey is too afraid to make those charges

If you listen to the interview of his former neighbor - or even read Dunn's own letters from jail - it's obvious that the entire incident was racial.

and it wouldn't surprise me to find that one is on that jury and is worried about the backlash from his friends and family members and online etc should he put THAT guy in prison with Murder 1.

a valid point to ponder.

I think they have already decided on the attempted murder charges and are wrestling with the murder charge, hopefully between Murder 1 and Murder 2. I can see the difficulty in charging Murder 1 even though the law requires that only a second is necessary for there to be premeditation since most people believe that premeditation requires time and planning of length.

There is a lot of evidence and testimony to consider particularly discrepancies in Dunn's statements.

He'll be found guilty of something. The evidence in this case and Dunn's discrepancies in his stories as well as him never having called the police at any time even after his finding out that he had killed someone are overwhelming. A lot of convincing evidence is what Dunn did after leaving the scene. He claimed that he was terrified that this car full of "thugs" out to kill him would come to the hotel yet never called the police, parked in the front of the hotel, left his gun in the car and even walked his dog outside with no gun and obviously no fear which is just not believable that his claims of fear are true and goes to whether or not there was a gun and whether or not he REALLY believed there was.

What the jury did was ask a question as to whether they could hang on one charge and reach a verdict on the others. While this sounds similar to what you said there is one key difference, it was a question about process they did not actually say it was only one charge they were hung up on.

What I think is happening is that there is at least one person that does not want to convict, the other jurors are trying to negotiate a compromise. I believe there is at least one holdout and they are trying to convince that person to convict on the attempted murder charges but hang on the murder charge. Whether or not the hold out would accept such a deal is far from clear, my guess is that because they adjourned for the night without a verdict there is at least one very stubborn juror and while they are trying to negotiate with that person they are not having luck so far.

This is all speculation of course but that is what the signs point to for me.