The three white men convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man who was jogging in a South Georgia neighborhood in February 2020, were convicted on federal hate crime charges on Tuesday by a predominantly white jury.
Travis McMichael; his father, Gregory McMichael; and their neighbor, William “Roddie” Bryan, had been convicted of murdering Arbery in late November, and a judge sentenced all of them last month to life in prison. Travis and Gregory McMichael were sentenced to life without parole.
“As we understand it, [Arbery] left his home apparently to go for a run, and he ended up running for his life,” Judge Timothy Walmsley said of the fatal shooting during their first sentencing in January.
