Jury begins deliberations after closing arguments in Tyler Ashbaugh shooting trial

Judge Stephanie Boyd of the 187th District Court sent jurors to deliberate Friday after attorneys delivered closing arguments in the trial of Tyler Ashbaugh, who is charged in an incident last year that the state says involved gunfire directed at San Antonio police officers.

The judge read the court's instructions to the jury before sending the panel to the jury room. In instructing the jury, Judge Boyd reviewed the elements the state must prove for aggravated assault against a public servant and for deadly conduct and told jurors they were "the exclusive judges of the facts proved, of the credibility of the witnesses, and of the weight to be given to the testimony," language the court repeated in its charge to the panel.

The state told…