In the case of the shot black Ahmaud Arbery There has been a third arrest: The 50-year-old William Bryan – a white man – was charged with willful murder, among other things, said the Criminal Police Office in the US state of Georgia on Thursday evening. According to the lawyer for the killed Arbery family, Lee Merritt, Bryan filmed the attack on February 23 from his car.
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It wasn’t until two months after the fact that the 25-year-old was murdered given the first two arrests. It was only investigated more intensively when the case received widespread attention through the published mobile phone video. Attorney Merritt had spoken of three, not just two, suspects in early May. He accuses Bryan that he was armed and released his gun while filming. A corresponding sound can indeed be heard in the 14-second clip.
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Racial Murder?
At the beginning of May, 64-year-old Gregory McMichael and his 34-year-old son Travis were arrested. They are also white. They are charged with serious physical injury and murder. They are said to have followed the jogging Arbery and then confronted them with two firearms. Gregory McMichael portrayed Arbery as a burglar. When Travis McMichael got out of the car with his rifle, Arbery attacked him. The 34-year-old then shot twice. Arbery died from the injuries.
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Victim lawyer Merritt throws out the suspect’s murder racist Motives: “Arbery had committed no crime and there was no reason for these men to believe that they had the right to stop him with weapons or to use lethal force.”
The case had received a lot of attention in the United States. The Georgia Attorney General has one with the U.S. government Investigation of possible misconduct requested when dealing with the judicial authorities.
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