WATCH NOW: A Georgia judge is sentencing the three men convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery.
Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, was shot and killed while jogging in a neighborhood in Brunswick, Georgia. The shooting was captured on cellphone video, which the jury viewed during theOn Friday morning, lead prosecutor Linda Dunikoski asked Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley to give Travis McMichael, 35, and his father Gregory McMichael, 66, life sentences without the possibility of parole.
In emotional testimony, Arbery's family asked for the defendants to receive the maximum punishment allowed. During the trial, prosecutors said Arbery was out running when the men chased him through the neighborhood, eventually boxing him in with their trucks before Travis McMichael fired the fatal shots. The defense team argued the men believed Arbery was a burglary suspect and claimed they acted in self defense.on all counts, including malice murder, felony murder and aggravated assault.
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