June 4, 2020
By Cleve R. Wootson, Jr., Annie Gowen and Abigail Houslohner
A judge in Glynn County, Ga., (click here) ruled Thursday that three white men accused of killing a black jogger in Georgia in February will stand trial for murder, after a day-long hearing that revealed the shooter allegedly uttered the words “f---ing n-----” as the victim lay dying in the road.
William “Roddie” Bryan, who captured Ahmaud Arbery’s death on cellphone video, told investigators that Travis McMichael, 34, used the slur before police arrived at the scene, according to testimony by a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent. In his closing statement, prosecutor Jesse Evans described a deadly game of cat-and-mouse as the defendants used their vehicles to corner Arbery before McMichael “gunned him down in broad daylight.”
The three men — Bryan, McMichael and his father, Gregory McMichael — were charged last month with felony murder in the Feb. 23 shooting death of Arbery, 25. The defendants face a minimum of life in prison if convicted on the murder charges, or more severe penalties of life with parole or death....
