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Ahmaud Arbery's mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, and father, Marcus Arbery, joined hands outside the federal courthouse minutes after hearing the three men convicted of killing their son were found guilty of hate crimes.
BRUNSWICK, Ga. — The three men responsible for Ahmaud Arbery’s murder were found guilty Tuesday morning of federal hate crimes, closing another chapter in his family’s two-year struggle for justice.
The Unity in the Community Memorial Walk took participants on a 2.3 mile walk/run through a Hinesville park, representing the day Arbery was chased and killed, Feb. 23.
Federal charges accuse Greg McMichael, Travis McMichael and William "Roddie" Bryan Jr. of targeting Ahmaud Arbery because of his race.
Federal prosecutors on Friday called their final witnesses to the stand in the hate crimes trial against the three white men who murdered Ahmaud Arbery — finishing off a week of proceedings that saw hours of sworn testimony heard by a jury of 12 in the Brunswick federal courthouse.