the defense teams in the trials of three men accused of murdering 25-year-old ahmaud arbery resting their case today, but not before the prosecution pressed travis mcmichael, the man who shot arbery, on what was happening in those final moments. here is cnn s ryan young with the latest. i just killed a man. i had blood on me still. it was the most traumatic event of my life. i was scared to death. reporter: dramatic testimony today in the trial in the 2020 killing of ahmaud arbery as defendant travis mcmichael was back on the stand facing additional cross-examination. mcmichael is one of three defendants in the case including his father, gregory mcmichael, and william bryan. yesterday the young mcmichael testified he acted in self-defense when he shot arbery in february 2020 after a chasing confrontation in the coastal georgia neighborhood.
arbery resting their case today, but not before the prosecution pressed travis mcmichael, the man who shot arbery, on what was happening in those final moments. here is cnn s ryan young with the latest. i just killed a man. i had blood on me still. it was the most traumatic event of my life. i was scared to death. reporter: dramatic testimony today in the trial in the 2020 killing of ahmaud arbery as defendant travis mcmichael was back on the stand facing additional cross-examination. mcmichael is one of three defendants in the case including his father, gregory mcmichael, and william bryan. yesterday the young mcmichael testified he acted in self-defense when he shot arbery in february 2020 after a chasing confrontation in the coastal georgia neighborhood. today the prosecutor pressed mcmichael on his acts leading up to the shooting. how many times have you pulled up on strangers that you don t know next to them with a pickup truck to ask them what they re doing in your neighbor
acted in the way that he did. mj lee, appreciate it. thank. now, to the trial of three white men charged with the killing of a jogger, ahmaud arbery, a black man. during open statements today, prosecutors argued the defendants tracked down the 25-year-old, cornered him and shot him without any knowledge that arbery had done anything wrong even though they claim they were making a citizen s arrest. also today, an emotional moment for arbery s mom who saw the video of her son s death in its entirety for the first time adve as it was played in the courtroom. state of georgia versus travis mcmichael, greg mcmichael, and william r. brian. reporter: in a trial where race and racism take center stage, the nearly all white jury heard two very different accounts of how a 25-year-old black man, ahmaud arbery, was chased and killed by three white men as he was running in a coastal georgia neighborhood. mr. arbery takes off running and the pickup truck goes to follow him. reporter: i
opening statements began friday in the trial of three white men charged with the killing of ahmaud arbery, who was jogging through a neighborhood. emotions were high in the courtroom, particularly, as you can imagine, for arbery s family after prosecutors played video of the shooting in its entirety. cnn s martin savidge has the latest. the state of georgia versus travis mcmichael, greg mcmichael and william r. bryan reporter: in a trial where race and racism take center stage, the nearly all-white jury heard two very different accounts of how a 25-year-old black man, ahmaud arbery, was chased and killed by three white men as he was running in a coastal georgia neighborhood. mr. arbery takes off running and the pickup truck goes to
coverage footage was played for the final moments for the jury. martin savage has more on the opening statements. reporter: the state of georgia versus travis mcmichael, greg mcmichael and william r. brian r. in a trial where race and racism takes center stage, the all white jury heard two different accounts how a black man was chased and killed by three white men running in a coastal georgia neighborhood. he started to take off running a. pick-up truck goes to follow him. reporter: the lead prosecutor described aushry under attack. who say he had committed a crime. in this case all three of these defendants did everything they did based on assumptions r. not on fact, not on evidence, on assumptions. and they made decisions in their