A judge on Thursday declared a mistrial in the murder case against a 23-year-old San Pedro man who allegedly shot and killed an off-duty Monterey Park police officer in the parking lot of a Downey shopping center after the man refused to give up his car, a prosecutor said Thursday, Jan. 29. No one else heard the words “off-duty” as the recording was played, Lewin wrote in court papers arguing against a mistrial. During opening statements Monday, Lewin told the jury that much of the evidence against Delcid will come from video and from the mouths of the defendant and his crime partners through Perkins operations. He also asked the panel to take into consideration that alcohol, marijuana and laughing gas were found in the Accord following Delcid’s arrest. Magallanes also admitted to giving Delcid the gun before the shooting and getting rid of it afterwards.