BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) A hung jury has forced a judge to declare a mistrial in the case of a Connecticut woman accused of ramming her boyfriend to death with her car.

The Connecticut Post reports the Bridgeport Superior Court jury told Judge Maria Kahn on Friday that it was hopelessly deadlocked on whether 23-year-old Cherelle Baldwin was guilty or not guilty of murder. Prosecutors are expected to retry the case.

Baldwin says she was acting in self-defense when she ran down 24-year-old Jeffrey Brown with her car and crushed him to death against a cinder-block garage wall in Bridgeport in May 2013. She says Brown had choked her with a belt before she hit him with her car.

Friday was the fifth day of deliberations.