Jury selection will begin Oct. 18 in the trial of three men on state murder charges. They have also been charged, separately, with a federal hate crime.
Caption (L to R) Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael, William Roddie Bryan Credit: Glynn County Sheriff s Office
The trial of the men charged with killing Ahmaud Arbery near Brunswick last year will begin October 18.
Judge Timothy Walmsley issued a notice Friday that jury selection will begin that day in the trial of Gregory and Travis McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan.
All three men face charges including murder and assault in the shooting.
Arbery was jogging through the men’s neighborhood February 2020. Investigators say the defendants, who are white, pursued the 25-year-old Black man in pickup trucks.
Jury selection in Ahmaud Arbery case set for October
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Jury selection will begin October 18 for the state trial of three men facing charges in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia last year, according to Glynn County, Georgia, court records.
Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, was out for a jog near Brunswick, Georgia, on February 23, 2020, when he was chased down in a truck by three men and fatally shot. Two of the men Gregory and Travis McMichael claimed they were conducting a citizen’s arrest and acted in self-defense.
A third man, William “Roddie” Bryan Jr., who recorded video of Arbery’s death, allegedly hit Arbery with his truck after he joined the McMichaels in the chase.
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Trial date set for Ahmaud Arbery murder case
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Jury selection will begin October 18 for the state trial of three men facing charges in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia last year, according to Glynn County, Georgia, court records.
Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, was out for a jog near Brunswick, Georgia, on February 23, 2020, when he was chased down in a truck by three men and fatally shot. Two of the men Gregory and Travis McMichael claimed to be conducting a citizen’s arrest and acting in self-defense.
A third man, William “Roddie” Bryan Jr., who recorded video of Arbery’s death, allegedly hit Arbery with his truck after he joined the McMichaels in the chase.