It took almost three months and a video of the murder for charges to be brought.
, Gregory McMichael and his son, Travis McMichael, were arrested yesterday, May 7th, 2020, and will be booked into the Glynn County Jail. The arrest and charges only happened after video surfaced this week of Arbery being shot by the younger McMichael and stumbling into the middle of the street. According to, the elder McMichael is a former officer with the Glynn County Police Department, retiring last year. Before his retirement, he also worked as an investigator at the local DA’s office.
An unidentified third party took the video of the attack and Arbery family attorney S. Lee Merritt tellsthey hope that person will also be arrested. Merritt says the state’s “stand your ground” law doesn’t allow people to be “lying in wait.” The McMichaels first told police they got in their truck with their guns to go after Arbery after seeing him jogging, because they thought he matched the description for a suspect involved in several recent break-ins.reports that no string of break-ins matching what the McMichaels’ alleged had been reported to Glynn County Police in the weeks prior to Arbery’s death.
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