A jury is now deciding the fate of the man accused of killing a woman in the Galleria Mall parking garage as the victim?s family anxiously awaits its verdict Tuesday.

Phillip Grant, a convicted sex offender, is on trial for brutally stabbing Connie Russo Carriero in White Plains last June. Police say Grant told them in his confession that he wanted to kill a white person. The prosecution maintained Carriero?s blood was found on Grant?s clothes and his hand. The defense argued that the DNA couldn?t prove Grant was the real killer.

While deliberating, the jury has asked for some clarification on the law. They also asked to again see the videotaped confession Grant made to police and three surveillance video clips from around the mall. Grant faces 25 years to life if convicted of murder as a hate crime.

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