US jury finds 3 white men guilty of Ahmaud Arbery's murder

By Michael Hernandez

WASHINGTON (AA) - A jury in the US state of Georgia found three white men charged with the 2020 murder of Ahmaud Arbery guilty on Wednesday in a case that has prompted nationwide attention.

All of the men were charged with murder, aggravated assault, false imprisonment and attempted false imprisonment.

Travis McMichael, the man who fatally shot the 25-year-old Black man in the port city of Brunswick in February 2020, was found guilty of all charges against him, including malice murder, four counts of felony murder, two counts of aggravated assault, false imprisonment and criminal contempt to commit a felony.

His father, Gregory McMichael, was found not guilty of malice murder, but was found guilty of all other charges. Their neighbor, William "Roddie" Bryan, Jr., who joined in the pursuit and whose cellphone footage documented the tragedy, was found guilty of felony murder, aggravated assault, false imprisonment, and criminal contempt to commit a felony.

Georgia Superior Court judge Timothy Walmsley said he would begin the scheduling process for sentencing within the next couple of weeks.

All three men still face federal hate crime charges in a trial expected to take place in early 2022.