phone locks at 8:49 and 31 seconds, around that same time, and she never answers another text, never sends another text, never makes another phone call never receives another phone call. three minutes, ladies and gentlemen, three minutes, after a video shows he s at the scene with the victims and told everybody he was never there. never there. credibility ladies and gentlemen. what happens? you ll hear evidence that alex s phone conspicuously he didn t have a lot of activity from about 8:09 p.m. until 9:02 p.m. and if he was at the kennels, which the evidence will show, why is his phone not with him? why is it not showing activity? but you will hear that at 9:02. all of a sudden his phone starts to pick up activity. 9:02 the calls he starts moving at 9:04:40 calls maggie s phone, doesn t answer, of course, doesn t answer it. he calls his father randolph in the house but doesn t appear there s an answer there. he calls maggie again at 9:06. remember he s just a third of a mile
16 gauge buck shot in. that s how shook up he was. guy hunted all his life and put a shell in that wouldn t, you couldn t fire a 16 gauge from 12 gauge. makes no sense. he was traumatized. gsr , their own expert sled says the amount of particles of gsr are consistent with him going up and picking that shotgun up. they want to talk about gsr ? again, if you fired a shotgun twice and a rifle six times, you d be covered in gsr . those are the facts that s not his theory. the facts. now let s talk a little bit about these ar s again you ll hear testimony, a lot of guns. they got a gun room. i don t live in colleton county i live in downtown columbia. ain t no gun rooms in downtown columbia.
aggravated assault was continuous, started with pulling that shotgun up, ahmaud arbery was 30 to 40 yards away, not in imminent threat at all. what did it do? it ended with the pulling of the trigger, shotgun blast here, pellets right here. did that felony contribute? of course it did. it is the cause of his death. aggravated assault with a pickup truck. i want to be real clear about this. you do not have to hit the person with the pickup truck. the judge is going to charge you that. actual injury to the alleged victim need not be shown. what has to be shown? this. were the defendants actions such that it placed ahmaud arbery in reasonable fear of immediately receiving a violent injury? what did mr. bryan do? he actually ran him into a
look at this. take a look at this. he s not even up to those mailboxes on the side. and that s travis mcmichael, pulling that shotgun up. what are they going to tell you? they re going to tell you, oh, he was running towards me. and i could tell, he was going to attack me. is that reasonable? who brought the shotgun to the party. who took the shotgun out of the car? the guy is running away from them for five minutes. here s the thing, you cannot create the danger to yourself. you cannot be the unjustified aggressor. you cannot create the situation and go, i was defending myself. you just can t do it. he moved to intercept.
he s just running away from the man with the shotgun. look at this. take a look at this. he s not even up to those mailboxes on the side. that s travis mcmichael pulling that shotgun up. what are they going to tell you? they re going to tell you, oh, he was running toward me. i could tell he was going to attack me. is that reasonable? who brought the shotgun to the party? who took the shotgun out of the car? who pointed the shotgun? the guy s running, running away from them for five minutes. here s the thing. you cannot take the danger to yourself. that means you cannot be the initial unjustified aggressor. you can t create the situation and then go, i was defending myself. you just can t do it.