Ahmaud Arbery
– 25
– Black
– High school football player
– Graduated from Brunswick High School in 2012
– Indicted bringing a gun to a 2013 high school basketball game when he was 19
– 2018 arrested for shoplifting
– Unemployed, seeking electrician career
Gregory McMichael
– 64
– White
– Worked in Brunswick Police Department
– Investigator in the Brunswick District Attorney’s Office
– Retired in 2019
Travis McMichael
– 34
– White
– Son of Gregory McMichael
– Employment status unknown
William “Roddie†Bryan
– 50
– White
– Witness to the crime and filmed video
– Mechanic
Wanda Cooper Jones
– Mother of Ahmaud Arbery
– Ahmaud lived with his mother
Marcus Arbery
– Father of Ahmaud Arbery
Allen Booker
– Glynn County Commissioner
– Black
Ahmaud Arbery was running in Satilla Shores neighborhood (a white neighborhood) in Brunswick, GA on Sunday afternoon Feb 23, 2020. Neighborhood was 2 miles from his home and he was unarmed. Gregory McMichael and Travis McMichael called 911. They confronted him and sought to detain Ahmaud until police came. Arberry had grabbed the shotgun and they engaged in a fight. Three shots were fired. Ahmaud bled to death on the scene.
On Feb 27, Brunswick District Attorney Jackie Johnson wrote a letter recusing herself from the investigation in order to avoid a conflict of interest.
Johnson requested that the state’s attorney general, Christopher Carr, assign the case to another office to investigate.
The case was then referred to Waycross District Attorney George E. Barnhill, who also recused himself from the case.
April 13, Carr then assigned Atlantic Judicial Circuit District Attorney Tom Durden to the case.
May 5, a 28-second cellphone video posted on YouTube by Alan Tucker, a Georgia criminal defense attorney
May 7, Travis McMichael and Gregory McMichael were arrested two months afterwards by GBI after national attention on the case. Charged with felony murder and aggravated assault.
Demographics
– Glynn County – 69% white and 27% black
– Brunswick, Ga — a town of about 16,000 – 37% white and 56% black
Video
– Video shows fatal Brunswick shooting of Ahmaud Arbery
Maps
– Google maps – Satilla Dr/Holmes Rd
Links
– A Georgia man was chased and killed while jogging, his mother says
– Mother seeks justice after son shot while jogging in Brunswick, Ga.; pair involved in killing not arrested
– What we know about Satilla Shores, the community where Ahmaud Arbery was killed
– On the day Ahmaud Arbery took his last run, 911 calls shine new light on case
– A suspect in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery was involved in a previous investigation of him, recused prosecutor says
– The events leading up to the arrest of 2 men for murder of Ahmaud Arbery
– Man who took video of Ahmaud Arbery’s shooting will also be investigated, Georgia official says
– William ‘Roddy’ Bryan: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
– Attorney retained to represent Brunswick man who shot video of Ahmaud Arbery’s shooting
– Ahmaud Arbery case puts spotlight on citizen’s arrest law; it prohibits the use of deadly force
– Ben Crump: Ahmaud Arbery killing reminiscent of lynching
– White father, son charged with murder in Ahmaud Arbery case