BY Caroline Vakil
The three men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man chased down and killed while jogging in their Georgia neighborhood in February 2020, were all sentenced to life in prison on Friday in a dramatic courtroom sentencing — two of them without the possibility of parole.
Travis McMichael, who fatally shot Arbery and was found guilty on nine charges including malice murder, and his father Gregory McMichael were both sentenced to life without parole.
William “Roddie” Bryan, who videotaped part of the incident, was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole.
Judge Timothy Walmsley paused the courtroom for one minute as he remarked on the trial, a moment he acknowledged was theatrical but that he suggested was important to show how quickly the McMichaels and Bryan decided to chase down Arbery and kill him.
He noted it was just a fifth of the time — five minutes — that the men had chased after Arbery in a pickup. He called the incident chilling, and suggested he did not believe the McMichaels had shown remorse for the killing.
“As we understand it, [Arbery] left his home apparently to go for a run, and he ended up running for his life,” Walmsley said of the fatal shooting.
This article originally appeared on TheHill
