One of the suspects in Ahmaud Arbery's killing called 911 less than 2 weeks before the incident alleging he spotted someone he deemed suspicious at a construction site, according to 911 audio.
On Feb. 11, Larry English, the owner of a home under construction in the neighborhood, received an alert after motion in the building site triggered a security camera, his attorney, Elizabeth Graddy said. English sent a text message to a neighbor, Diego Perez, asking him to check on the house, she said. Perez could not be reached for comment Thursday.
A police report on the Feb. 11 incident said English had an ongoing issue with trespassing on the property, according toThis was one of a handful of times in the months before Arbery's fatal shooting that the motion-activated camera at the construction site captured video of someone inside the open-framed structure, Graddy said.
"Even if there had been a robbery, however, the English family would not have wanted a vigilante response," Graddy told NBC News on Monday in reference to the Feb. 23 shooting."They would have entrusted the matter to law enforcement authorities."
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