Family Seeks Justice After Son Is Shot Dead By Two White Men While Jogging
A family is seeking justice after the killers of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery were not charged or arrested for his murder.
Ahmaud Arbery was jogging through the suburban neighborhood of ranch houses in Brunswick, Ga., on Feb. 23, a jog he usually does, except this time he passed a man standing in his front yard who thought Arbery resembled a burglary suspect.
Retired district attorney investigator Gregory McMichael, 64, called out to his son, Travis, 34. who grabbed two guns before getting into their trucks to follow Arbery. The New York Times reports that the father and son duo shouted at Arbery,
“Stop, stop. we want to talk to you.”
Unfortunately, there was some sort of struggle, and Arbery was shot twice and died. A police report notes that he instantly bled out. There has been little attention towards the case, and the prosecutor believes that the two white men acted lawfully within Georgia’s guidelines for a citizen’s arrest.
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“We can’t do anything because of this corona stuff,” said Wanda Cooper who is. Ahmaud’s mother. “We thought about walking out where the shooting occurred, just doing a little march, but we can’t be out right now.”
Arbery had been a promising linebacker at Brunswick High, selected to play in the Georgia and Florida All-Star Game his senior year in 2012. Many in the neighborhood knew he would regularly go out to jog and exercise. He was killed three days before the eighth anniversary of Trayvon Martin’s murder.
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On Feb 23, 2020, Ahmaud Arbery was murdered in the streets of Brunswick, GA by a man and son duo who HUNTED him down. Literally hunted him down. Because they saw him running down their street. The street that this man has run several times for a workout. pic.twitter.com/pGYjyl0Kr0— Elizabeth Zanath (@Lizlatham97) April 24, 2020