Man who shot Ahmaud Arbery gets life in prison for hate crime
The McMichaels armed themselves with guns and used a pickup truck to chase Arbery after he ran past their home on Feb. 23, 2020.
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The McMichaels armed themselves with guns and used a pickup truck to chase Arbery after he ran past their home on Feb. 23, 2020.
The father and son convicted of murder in Ahmaud Arbery’s fatal shooting were sentenced Monday to life in prison for committing a federal hate crime.
A jury in Brunswick, Ga., found defendants Travis McMichael, Greg McMichael and William "Roddie" Bryan guilty of hate crimes in the 2020 shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery.
A jury has convicted the three White men involved in the death of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man, guilty of federal hate crimes. Prosecutors cited evidence that the suspects were racially motivated when they chased the victim through their neighborhood before shooting him with a shotgun.
In sentencing the three in the Georgia state court, Judge Walmsley said that in our system, “everybody is accountable to the rule of law.” And so they are.