Lawyer Gregory McMichael said Ahmaud Arbery killing “is not just an act of violent racism”

The shooting incident was captured on video which became public last week.

“There have been a number of videos that have been released,” Laura Hogue said. “There are a number of photographs. There are a number of notes. All of that must be assimilated, and the important thing is that the time has been determined, so that every second, our hope is, will unite the truth about what happened on the 23rd.

“We know a few other important facts, facts that point to a very different narrative than what brought you here today.”

Hogue said a preliminary hearing and a bond hearing would be scheduled for Gregory McMichael “very soon.”

Arbery was jogging in the Satilla Shores neighborhood outside Brunswick when he was shot dead on February 23, according to the Glynn County Police Department incident report.

Elder McMichael told police that he thought Arbery looked like a suspect in a series of recent burglaries, according to the incident report.

Gregory McMichael took a gun while his son took a shotgun and they chased Arbery in a truck, his father told police, according to the report.

When they followed him, Travis McMichael got out of the truck with a shotgun and a battle ensued between him and Arbery, according to reports and videos of the incident. Gregory McMichael was in the truck bed when the shooting occurred, according to reports and videos.

Arbery was shot three times, including twice in the chest, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s autopsy report obtained by CNN.

Arbery’s family lawyer commented on the security video

The surveillance video from a house under construction seems to show Arbery on location several minutes before he was killed on February 23. In the video, a man can be seen walking around and not touching anything.

A man who identified himself as Travis McMichael called 911 on February 11 and told the operator that he saw a man entering a house under construction, according to police reports. The surveillance video showing an African-American man on the property on February 11 was recorded by a motion sensor security camera installed by the property owner, Larry English, according to his lawyer, Elizabeth Graddy.

English told CNN that he could not identify the person he saw on the video after the 11 February incident. He did not report the incident to the police, he said.

In a new statement on Friday, Graddy said it appeared that the man in the February 11 video was also recorded at home last fall and on December 17. He said the man might come home to get water, because he was seen wiping his mouth. in the December 17 video. Graddy said there was a water source on the dock behind the house and a source near the front.

“In his last recording captured on December 17, what sounded like water could be heard. He walked out of the house, walked casually, and disappeared from view,” Graddy said.

Lawyers for the Arbery family also said they did not know who the person was in the February 11 video.

On Friday, lawyers for the mother and father of Ahmaud Arbery, S. Lee Merritt, Benjamin Crump and L. Chris Stewart, issued statements about the video.

“We have reviewed a number of videos released by lawyers for homeowners that are being built,” the statement said. “We can confirm that Ahmaud Arbery appeared in one video, but we cannot confirm that he appeared in another video.”

The statement said there were people who were often at the construction site day and night but Ahmaud Arbery “seemed to be the only one considered a criminal.”

“We appreciate the homeowner who acknowledges that Mr. Arbery did not steal or damage anything on the property. That is the opinion of the homeowner, after watching Mr. Arbery’s movements on video, that he briefly stopped at the house being built to get drinking water from the sink. work, “according to the statement.

The new prosecutor ‘has a professional interaction’ with the suspect

Because of a change of place order, prosecutor Cobb tried a case in Brunswick in the fall of 2016 and used office space in the Glynn district attorney’s office, Holmes said.

“At that time, the Cobb trial team conducted professional interactions with Glynn County DA Office employees, including their investigator, Gregory McMichael,” Holmes wrote in his statement. “In addition, in the spring of 2017, an investigator who is now a former with our office communicates with McMichael to help find a witness who lives in Glynn County and is required to testify in the Cobb murder case. There is no ongoing relationship between the Deputy Chief Cobb ADA Jesse Evans and McMichael. “

Holmes said he discussed his contact with Gregory McMichael with Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr before accepting the appointment

“Professional interactions between prosecution agents and even law enforcement are common and do not create legal or factual conflicts in continuing a case,” he said.

Mrs. Arbery, sister takes part in the virtual city hall

Ms. Ahmaud Arbery, Wanda Cooper, and sister, Jasmine Arbery, participated in a virtual town hall on Friday held to discuss “issues of social justice, racial differences and the criminal justice system in the United States,” according to a press release.

“Ahmaud Arbery is my sister,” said Jasmine Arbery. “Talking about it is like breathing fresh air. If you pay attention, I’m smiling now.”

Wanda Cooper thanked the younger participants at the town hall, saying, “You will be our voice in the future.”

The family did not talk about the legal aspects of this case. City Hall is hosted by Boys & Girls Clubs from Dane County, Georgia Coastal Community Action Authority Inc. and Madison365.

Correction: This article and headline have been updated to correct a quote from Frank Hogue, a lawyer for Gregory McMichael. The quote has no words and has been corrected.