Ahmaud Arbery’s Killing

Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN

After moving at a plodding pace for more than two months, the case of Ahmaud Arbery’s killing has, from an investigative perspective, hit warp speed.Protesters were kept inside for weeks because of Georgia’s coronavirus restrictions, and two prosecutors recused themselves from the case, citing links to one of the Glynn County men now charged with murder, while a third asked to step down.There wasn’t much movement in the 25-year-old’s slaying until Tuesday, when a video showing the fatal shooting in Satilla Shores surfaced on a Brunswick radio station’s website. The case, which, to observers, had appeared stagnant, came alive. The third prosecutor in the case said that day he would present evidence to a grand jury and asked the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to assist in the case. Within 48 hours, the GBI announced it had arrested Travis McMichael, 34, the man who shot Arbery, and his father, Greg McMichael, a former Glynn County police officer and prosecutorial investigator.

Greg McMichael, 64, told police that he and his son grabbed their guns and chased Arbery in their truck, believing he was responsible for burglaries in their neighborhood, according to a police incident report. When they confronted him, the father told police, Arbery attacked Travis McMichael, who killed him as the two struggled for his shotgun, the report says.

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