SAVANNAH, Ga. – Georgia authorities arrested a white father and son Thursday and charged them with murder in the February shooting death of a black man they had pursued in a truck after spotting him running in their neighborhood.
The charges came more than two months after Ahmaud Arbery, 25, was killed on a residential street just outside the port city of Brunswick.
National outrage over the case swelled this week after a cellphone video that appeared to show the shooting. Gregory McMichael told police after the February shooting that he and his son chased after Arbery because they suspected him of being a burglar.
Arbery’s mother, Wanda Cooper Jones, has said she believes her son, a former football player, was just jogging in the Satilla