San Diego

Jurors considering a murder charge against Roger Sing Ip in the shooting death of a 15-year-old boy are scheduled to enter their fifth day of deliberations today.

A court reporter read back the entire testimony of Ip, 34, of Spring Valley, on Tuesday after jurors asked to hear it again.

Ip is charged with killing Kurt Yokes, who was shot to death following a near-collision with Ip’s car in Pacific Beach on July 10, 1989.

The jury began deliberations late Thursday and discussed the case two full days before requesting the rereading of Ip’s words Tuesday.

Ip testified that the shooting was accidental and said he had no intent to harm anyone when he followed the car Yokes was a passenger in late that night.

Ip said the teen-age driver made an obscene gesture at him after the near-miss and that another passenger yelled out comments he took to be racist.

The defendant said he followed the car simply to talk to the group and not to cause any harmful act. He said he carried a .357-caliber magnum with him as always because he had the receipts to the restaurant he co-owned.

The prosecution has asked for a first-degree murder conviction, calling the incident a “drive by shooting.”

Ip’s attorney, William Fletcher, suggested outright acquittal or, at most, a conviction for involuntary manslaughter.