POMEROY — Paula Rizer is still in Washington County Jail, and neither side in her murder case has addressed her bond since she was found not guilty of aggravated murder Tuesday.

Rizer was in jail Wednesday afternoon, Sheriff Robert Beegle said, the day after a jury acquitted her of aggravated murder and deadlocked on a verdict on a reduced charge of murder in her trial, which began a week before.

Rizer was accused of shooting her husband, Kenny Rizer, Sr., multiple times at their home on Lovett Road on April 3. The jury found her not guilty of aggravated murder, but a lone holdout prevented the jury from reaching a unanimous verdict either way on the charge of murder.

Prosecuting Attorney Colleen Williams and Matthew Donahue, assistant prosecutor, used forensic testimony from the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation in an attempt to prove Rizer fired the shots at her husband while he was sitting in his reclining chair, and called family members to the stand to refute the defendant’s claim the couple had a increasingly unhappy marriage.

Rizer told the jury she and her husband had been arguing the day of the shooting, and that he had been verbally abusive and physically assaulted her just before the shots were fired.

The jury does not disclose whether the lone vote preventing a unanimous verdict is one of guilty or not guilty, so it is not known how the jury’s vote came out. A jury verdict form reporting the not guilty verdict on the aggravated murder charge was filed in Rizer’s case Wednesday. It is the last document in the file.

Judge Fred W. Crow III remanded Rizer to sheriff’s custody after the jury was discharged. Bond was not addressed after the jury returned its verdict.

After Rizer’s indictment on the aggravated murder charge, her bond was set at $500,000 cash. She has been in jail since that time, although her attorney, Herman Carson, asked the court to reduce her bond while the case was pending.

In June, Carson asked for a modification of Rizer’s bond to a $1 million personal recognizance bond, and a $250,000 appearance bond, and asked that a 10 percent, or $25,000 cash bond, be permitted in order to facilitate her release from jail.

In a memorandum in support of the bond modification, Carson said Rizer had no past criminal record, and would stay with her sister in Canal Winchester until the trial was concluded.

Williams said Tuesday she plans to retry Rizer on the murder charge as early as next month. The grand jury is scheduled to convene on Nov. 6, but that session was ordered prior to the Rizer verdict.