Cobb County District Attorney, Joyette M. Holmes announced today that indictments have been returned by a grand jury in the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery.
Holmes was appointed in May by Attorney General Chris Carr to handle the prosecutio
All three defendants, Gregory McMichael, Travis McMichael, and William R. Bryan have been indicted on nine counts: Malice murder, felony murder (four counts), and aggravated assault (two counts).
Little attention initially paid
Arbery, a 25-year-old black man, was shot and killed by white residents of a coastal South Georgia neighborhood where he had been jogging.
No arrests were initially made and a prosecutor who was handling the case early on said that the men had acted within the scope of Georgia’s citizens arrest statute, adding that the shooter had acted in self-defense.
The case received little attention until a video documenting the shooting was released and gained traction with celebrities and activists. The Georgia Bureau of Investigations eventually stepped in and took over the investigation.
