Jury selection is under way in the trial of three white men charged with killing Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery, 25, in a suburb of Brunswick, Georgia, in February 2020.
Former policeman Gregory McMichael, 65, his son Travis McMichael, 35, and their neighbor William "Roddie" Bryan, 52, each face charges of murder, aggravated assault and false imprisonment.Arbery, an avid jogger, left his mother's house for a run on a Sunday afternoon. He crossed a four-lane highway into the nearby Satilla Shores neighborhood.
Police reports say the men blocked Arbery's escape with their trucks. Bryan's cellphone video shows Arbery grappling with a shotgun leveled at him by Travis McMichael before being shot three times and falling prone on the street after he turned to run. Some lawyers not involved in the case have speculated that prosecutors could argue that Arbery grabbed the weapon in a fight for his life. Charging documents say the men unlawfully chased him and illegally detained him with their pickup trucks and had the intent to do him harm "with malice aforethought."Ahmaud Marquez Arbery, known to his friends as both "Maud" and "Quez," was a former linebacker for his high school football team, the Brunswick Pirates.
He was enrolled at South Georgia Technical College, studying to be an electrician like his uncles, but was taking a break to work and makeenough money to continue his studies.It took 74 days before charges were filed, and only after the Georgia Bureau of Investigation stepped in and took the case from local authorities.
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