The events leading up to the arrest of two men for the murder of Ahmaud Arbery. Gregory and Travis McMichael were charged with the murder of Ahmaud Arbery.
They said that their 25-year-old went for a routine afternoon jog on Sunday, Feb. 23, through the Satilla Shores, Georgia, neighborhood that's located a town over from where he lived in Brunswick.
But on May 5, a 28-second cellphone video leaked onto social media. The video showed Arbery getting shot and killed Johnson requested that the state's attorney general, Christopher Carr, assign the case to another office to investigate.Arbery's funeral service took place at New Springfield Baptist Church, in Alexander, where he was buried.
"He had a smile that would light up a room. He loved to tell jokes, to elicit laughter and had a beautiful personality," the obituary said.The case was then referred to Waycross District Attorney George E. Barnhill. Durden said he did not have any knowledge of the case or know any of the witnesses or investigators involved.Community leaders, including the state's NAACP, issued a statement calling on Durden to arrest the McMichaels for Arbery's murder.
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