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LIVE - Death of Ahmaud Arbery: Trial for 3 men charged with killing Ahmaud Arbery | Day 2
One of the three white men in pickup trucks who pursued Ahmaud Arbery through their mostly white southern Georgia neighborhood told police the Black jogger appeared tired from the chase before he was shot dead, a jury heard on Monday at the men's trial.
Gregory McMichael, 65; his son Travis McMichael, 35; and their neighbor William "Roddie" Bryan, 52, have pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, aggravated assault and false imprisonment. They face life in prison if convicted on the most serious charge by the jury, which is composed of 11 white people and one Black person.
The men say they thought Arbery might have been fleeing from a crime when he ran through Satilla Shores, their mostly white neighborhood, on a Sunday afternoon in February 2020. They pursued him in pickup trucks for several minutes before the younger McMichael pointed a shotgun at Arbery on the road.
Here are some important moments from the second day of witness testimony in Glynn County Superior Court:
RICKY MINSHEW, PATROL OFFICER WITH GLYNN COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT
Bryan told Minshew, the first police officer to arrive at the shooting scene, that he did not recognize Arbery when he ran by Bryan's driveway, nor the McMichaels as they drove by in pursuit in their pickup truck, Minshew told the jury.
"He said he hollered at the truck: 'Y’all got him?'"
before jumping in his own truck to join the chase, Minshew told the jury, referring to a transcript of his conversation with Bryan recorded on his body-worn camera.
"Did he ever ask the Black guy if he was OK?" Larissa Ollivierre, one of the prosecutors from the Cobb County District Attorney's office, asked Minshew.
"No, ma'am, he did not say he did," Minshew said.
"Should I have been chasing him? I don't know," Bryan told Minshew a few minutes after the shooting, a few steps away from Arbery's body in the road, according to the transcript. Bryan noted he never put on his seatbelt, and could have been "thrown threw the damn windshield trying to chase this joker."