UPDATE: Jury deliberating case of Richmond man accused of cousin’s shooting death

A Richmond jury started deliberating about 3 p.m. in the second trial of a Richmond man accused of killing his cousin in retaliation for the death of another cousin several hours earlier.

Prosecutors say Jason L. Patillo, 25, fatally shot James "Soul" Patillo, 37, on Feb. 4 in the front yard of an aunt's house in the 2500 block of Ford Avenue in Richmond's East End.

About seven hours earlier, Alphonzo "Fonz" Patillo was shot and left to die in a parking lot near a club in Hopewell after a Super Bowl party.

Soon after that shooting, a rumor reached Patillo relatives in Richmond that James Patillo had been involved in Alphonzo Patillo's death and had set him up to be robbed, prosecutors said.

Hopewell police, however, do not believe James Patillo was involved in Alphonzo Patillo's death, a Hopewell investigator testified yesterday. The case is unsolved.

The killing of James Patillo created a rift in the large extended family. At Jason Patillo's first trial in August, two family members were removed from the courtroom, and some relatives had a shouting match in a hallway.