On Friday, a court sentenced Ahmaud Arbery’s three assassins to life in jail without the option of release, with the chance of parole for two of them.
Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael, and William Bryan, all of whom are white, were convicted guilty of murder in November for the shooting death of Arbery, a Black man, in which they were all involved.
Mother of Ahmaud Arbery at sentencing hearing on men convicted of her son's murder: "They chose to target my son because they didn't want him in their community… and when they couldn't sufficiently scare him or intimidate him, they killed him." https://t.co/dY3OG34QXQ pic.twitter.com/FjuA8f1UC0
— ABC News (@ABC) January 7, 2022
The McMichaels were sentenced to life in prison without the chance of release, while Bryan was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole. Judge Timothy Walmsley handed down the sentences.
In a pickup vehicle, Gregory McMichael and his son Travis McMichael followed Arbery around their neighborhood on February 23, 2020, claiming that he was responsible for an increase in burglaries in the area that had occurred in previous weeks. Travis McMichael ultimately encountered Arbery in the street and shot him in the head with a shotgun at point-blank range.
When the McMichaels pulled over, Bryan pursued them in a separate car and used his smartphone to video the pursuit and the shooting.
BREAKING: Travis and Gregory McMichael are sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the 2020 murder of Ahmaud Arbery pic.twitter.com/H2M5KCUGXS
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 7, 2022
The three males were each charged with nine counts of murder, including malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, and false imprisonment, in connection with the death. Travis McMichael was found guilty on all charges by a jury, while his father was found guilty on all counts except malice murder by a jury. One accusation of malice murder was dismissed, as was one count of felony murder and one count of aggravated assault. Bryan was acquitted on all three counts.
When they approached Arbery, Travis and Gregory McMichael stated that they were attempting to put him under citizen’s arrest, which they claimed they were doing. During the shooting, they claimed they were acting in self-defense.
“It’s been a long time coming,” Arbery’s father, Marcus Arbery, said in a statement to Reuters after the conviction of the three men.
As he prepares to sentence Ahmaud Arbery's killers, Judge Walmsley directs the courtroom to sit in silence for 1 minute to put "in context" the five minutes Arbery ran for his life. pic.twitter.com/zLmsGIs9JR
— The Recount (@therecount) January 7, 2022
When the McMichaels pulled over, Bryan pursued them in a separate car and used his smartphone to video the pursuit and the shooting.
The three males were each charged with nine counts of murder, including malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, and false imprisonment, in connection with the death. Travis McMichael was found guilty on all charges by a jury, while his father was found guilty on all counts except malice murder by a jury. One accusation of malice murder was dismissed, as was one count of felony murder and one count of aggravated assault. Bryan was acquitted on all three counts.
When they approached Arbery, Travis and Gregory McMichael stated that they were attempting to put him under citizen’s arrest, which they claimed they were doing. During the shooting, they claimed they were acting in self-defense.
“It’s been a long time coming,” Arbery’s father, Marcus Arbery, said in a statement to Reuters after the conviction of the three men.
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