The date for the trial of Megan Hall, the woman charged in the killing of Pottsville businessman Patrick Murphy, has been delayed.

The Sept. 27 trial date has been vacated due to “the aftermath of Hurricane Ida (jurors will not be available)” a docket entry from her court case shows.

Hall appeared for a pretrial conference with her attorney John Fuller, who was personally present in the courtroom, via virtual courtroom in New Orleans Criminal District Court Monday.

Assistant District Attorney Matthew Derbes attended in person.

A pretrial conference was set for Oct. 6. Trials are not set to resume until Oct. 18.

Hall is charged with killing Murphy on Feb. 28, 2019, in New Orleans.

She is in jail at the Orleans Parish Justice Center on $750,000 bond. Hall is charged with second-degree murder, armed robbery and obstruction of justice. A grand jury voted to indict Hall in June 2019.

Police say Hall stabbed Murphy at The Empress Hotel, 137 Ursulines St. in the Treme section of New Orleans. A hotel employee found his body at 11:41 a.m.

Murphy, who had been the owner of Murphy Jewelers, had been visiting the city with his wife after he attended a jewelry convention in Arizona.

If Hall is convicted of the murder charge, she faces a mandatory lifetime prison sentence. An armed robbery conviction is 10 to 99 years in state prison, and up to 40 years for the obstruction charge.