GLYNN COUNTY, Ga. - Federal prosecutors and defense attorneys for the men convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery wrapped their closing remarks in the federal hate crimes trial on Monday in Brunswick, Georgia.The jury received the case at about 3 p.m.
on Monday and deliberated almost three hours before court went in recess for the day. Deliberations are set to restart at 9 a.m.
on Tuesday. Travis and Greg McMichael as well as William "Roddie" Bryan are accused of chasing Arbery through a Glynn County subdivision and shooting him because he was black.
The defendants, who all pleaded not guilty, claim they suspected Arbery was behind a string of crimes and the shooting was out of self-defense.