One of the three white men standing trial for the death of Ahmaud Arbery said they had the 25-year-old Black man “trapped like a rat” before he was fatally shot, a police investigator testified Wednesday.
before the three men were arrested on charges of murder and other crimes, after the graphic video leaked online and deepened a national reckoning over racial injustice.
“He was trapped like a rat,” Greg McMichael said, according to a transcript of their recorded interview Nohilly read in court."I think he was wanting to flee and he realized that something, you know, he was not going to get away.” Prosecutors say the McMichaels and Bryan chased Arbery for five minutes before he was shot in the street after running past the McMichaels' idling truck. Prosecutor Linda Dunikoski has described him as an “avid runner” who lived about 2 miles from the Satilla Shores neighborhood where he was slain.that Bryan told him Arbery at one point in the chase stopped to catch his breath and appeared to be “tired of running.
In court, Matthew Albenze testified he was splitting logs in his front yard on the day of the shooting when he saw Arbery enter the home under construction across the street.
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