Gregory McMichael, Travis McMichael, and William Bryan.

All three white men Gregory and Travis McMichael and William Bryan involved in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery found guilty of murder

By Edward Era Barbacena

Three white men were found guilty of murder Wednesday in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, the Black man who was just normally jogging empty-handed through a Georgia subdivision when the white strangers chased him, trapped him on a quiet street and blasted him with a shotgun.

The video of the shooting of Arbery while he was jogging in Brunswick, Georgia, in 2020 caused national outrage.

Ahmaud Arbery

The February 2020 slaying drew limited attention at first. But when video of the shooting leaked online, Arbery’s death quickly became another example in the nation’s reckoning of racial injustice in the way Black people are treated in their everyday lives.

A jury handed down a guilty verdict Wednesday for all three white men involved in the killing of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery. The jurors had been deliberating since Tuesday on the charges against Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael, and William ‘Roddie’ Bryan Jr.

They’ve all been found guilty of felony murder, along with other charges, and face life in prison. All three have also been indicted on federal hate crime and attempted kidnapping charges.

After roughly 10 and a half hours of deliberation, a jury in Glynn County, Georgia, decided that father and son Gregory and Travis McMichael and their neighbor William "Roddie" Bryan were guilty in the fatal shooting of Arbery on February 23, 2020.

The McMichaels and Bryan originally faced the same nine charges: one count of malice murder, four counts of felony murder, two counts of aggravated assault, one count of false imprisonment and one count of criminal intent to commit a felony.

Travis was found guilty on all nine charges, including malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, false imprisonment, and criminal intent, while Greg was found guilty of eight and Bryan Jr guilty of six. The trio still face federal hate crime charges.