JUST IN: Ahmaud Arbery’s killers get life sentences

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The three men who were convicted of the murder of Ahmaud Arbery have been sentenced to life in prison.

Travis McMichael, 35, and his father, Gregory McMichael, 66, were sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, while their neighbor, William “Roddie” Bryan, 52, will have to serve at least 30 years of his life sentence before he’s eligible for parole.

All three men, who are white, were convicted in November of killing Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man.

Arbery was killed by the men in February of 2020 while he was jogging in a neighborhood in Brunswick, Georgia. The shooting, which was captured on a mobile phone’s video camera, was viewed by the jury during the trial.

Arbery’s family asked for the men to receive the maximum punishment available.

“They each have no remorse and do not deserve any leniency,” Wanda Cooper-Jones, Arbery’s mother, told Superior Court Judge Timothy Walmsley. “This wasn’t a case of mistaken identity or mistaken fact. They chose to target my son because they didn’t want him in their community. They chose to treat him differently than other people who frequently visited their community, and when they couldn’t sufficiently scare him or intimidate him, they killed him.”

According to reports, prosecutors said Arbery was out jogging when the three men began to chase him. After the chase, they boxed him in with their trucks before Travis fired the fatal shots.

The McMichaels and Bryan are also facing federal hate crime charges and will be tried in a separate trial in that case which is set to begin Feb. 7.