Three men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery sentenced to life in prison.
The three white men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery were sentenced Friday to life in prison, with a judge denying any chance of parole for the father and son who armed themselves and initiated the deadly pursuit of the Black man in February 2020.shot Arbery, and his father, Gregory McMichael, do not carry the possibility of parole. Their neighbor William"Roddie" Bryan will be eligible, however, Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley said.
"There were so many opportunities to stop, to think," she said."And here's the real problem: Greg McMichael was former law enforcement" and Travis McMichael had served in the Coast Guard. "The man who killed my son has sat in this courtroom every single day next to his father. I'll never get that chance to sit next to my son ever again. Not at a general table. Not at a holiday. And not at a wedding," Arbery's father, Marcus Arbery, said before the sentence was announced.
In explaining his sentencing decision, Walmsley said he was also guided by"the defendants' own words" after the shooting. The judge said he agreed with Arbery's mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, who said earlier Friday in her victim impact statement,"When they could not scare or intimidate him, they killed him."
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