The three men were found guilty of murder and other charges on Wednesday for the pursuit and fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery. Travis McMichael, who fired the shot that killed Arbery in February 2020, was convicted on all nine charges, including malice murder and four counts of felony murder.
Prosecutors argued that the defendants pursued and murdered Arbery because of wrong “assumptions and driveway decisions” they made that the Black man running through their neighborhood had committed a burglary, while defense attorneys countered that Arbery was shot in self-defense when he resisted a citizen’s arrest.