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Ahmaud Arbery death trial live updates: 3 found guilty of murder

Arbery was fatally shot on Feb. 23, 2020, in Satilla Shores, Georgia.

A Georgia jury resumed deliberating on Wednesday the fates of three white men charged with trapping Ahmaud Arbery with their pickup trucks and fatally shooting him.

"Your oath requires that you will decide this case based on the evidence," Judge Timothy Walmsley told the jury before sending the panel off to begin their deliberations on Tuesday.

The jury got the case after Linda Dunikoski, the Cobb County, Georgia, assistant district attorney appointed as a special prosecutor in the Glynn County case, took two hours to rebut the closing arguments made on Monday by attorneys for the three defendants.

The jury, comprised of 11 white people and one Black person, heard wildly different summations on Monday of the same evidence in the racially-charged case. Dunikoski alleged the defendants pursued and murdered Arbery because of wrong assumptions 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.

Travis McMichael, the 35-year-old U.S. Coast Guard veteran; his father, Gregory McMichael, 65, a retired Glynn County police officer, and their neighbor, William "Roddie" Bryan, 53, each face maximum sentences of life in prison if convicted on all the charges.

The defendants have pleaded not guilty to a nine-count state indictment that includes malice murder, multiple charges of felony murder, false imprisonment, aggravated assault with a 12-gauge shotgun and aggravated assault with their pickup trucks.

The McMichaels and Bryan were also indicted on federal hate crime charges in April and have all pleaded not guilty.


McMichael plans to appeal: Attorneys

Attorneys for Gregory McMichael say they will appeal, after McMichael, his son Travis, and William "Roddie" Bryan were all found guilty Wednesday of murdering Ahmaud Arbery.

Laura Hogue, one of Gregory McMichael’s lawyers, said she was “very disappointed” and attorney Frank Hogue said they will appeal, which can only begin once sentencing is done.

-ABC News' Janice McDonald

Guilty verdicts for McMichaels, Bryan

A Georgia jury has convicted three white men of murder in the death of Ahmaud Arbery.

Travis McMichael, who shot fatally shot Arbery in February 2020, was convicted on all nine charges, including malice murder and four counts of felony murder.

Gregory McMichael, 65, was found not guilty of malice murder, but was convicted on the remaining charges, including the felony murder counts.
The McMichael's neighbor, William "Roddie" Bryan, 53, was found guilty of three of the felony murder counts and a charge of criminal intent to commit a felony.

Here is a full breakdown of the verdicts.


Jury asks to view video of Arbery shooting

The jury was shown multiple times the now-famous video showing a struggle between Travis McMichael and Ahmaud Arbery over McMichael's shotgun that partly captured the fatal shooting.

The panel sent a note to Judge Walmsley asking to view a short version of the video and an enhanced, high-contrast video of the deadly struggle. As per their request, the jury was played the videos three times each.

It was the first request from the jury to review any evidence in the case since they began deliberating on Tuesday.

The jury also asked to hear a 911 call between Greg McMichael and a police dispatcher around the time of the shooting on Feb. 23, 2020. In the 911 call played for the jury inside the Glynn County courtroom, Greg McMichael is heard explaining his emergency was "there's a Black male running down the street." He was also overheard yelling to Arbery: "Stop. Goddammit, stop" and "Travis."



Jury resumes deliberations

The jury resumed its deliberations on Wednesday morning, after working a little over six hours on Tuesday.

The panel was called into the Glynn County courtroom around 8:30 a.m. and Judge Walmsley thanked them for their service and sent them off to continue their discussions.


Travis McMichael's attorney gives closing argument

Jason Sheffield, an attorney for Travis McMichael, began his closing argument with the statement, "Duty and responsibility and following law will always be intertwined with heartache and tragedy."

He added, "This case is about three things: it's about watching, it's about waiting, it's about believing."

Sheffield added that Travis McMichael spent nearly a decade in the U.S. Coast Guard "learning about duty and responsibility."

"He received extensive training on how to make decisions that would ultimately impact his beliefs as a petty officer in the Coast Guard, as a boarding officer in the Coast Guard," said Sheffield, adding that Travis McMichael trained on probable cause, use of force and using a gun to deter crime to the point it was part of his "muscle memory."

He said around the time Arbery was killed, the neighborhood of Satilla Shores was experiencing an increase in crime and suspicious people lurking in the neighborhood. He cited the testimony of several residents of the community who testified.

"They told you that this was happening in their neighborhood scared them," Sheffield said.

Sheffield directed the jury to an encounter Travis McMichael had with a man who was later identified as Arbery outside a home under construction in the neighborhood that Arbery was seen several times on security video entering.

Sheffield said the offense of burglary does not have to constitute a break-in, or a broken window or busted door.

"That's not what's required for the law. Those questions are meaningless and they are red herrings," Sheffield said. "You just have to break the plane of the structure to constitute a burglary."