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Everything you need to know about the trial set to begin in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery

Following the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, the three white men accused are set to face trial scheduled to begin on Monday with jury selection, a process the judge estimates could take at least two weeks.

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Everything you need to know about the trial set to begin in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery

Following the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, the three white men accused are set to face trial scheduled to begin on Monday with jury selection, a process the judge estimates could take at least two weeks.

Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan — all of whom are white — are accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery, who was Black.

How Ahmaud Arbery was killed?

A former high school athlete, Arbery loved to run, according to family members. He was out for a jog when he encountered the three men, they chased him down in pickup trucks.

As the McMichaels were trying to stop Arbery, a fight broke out in the road and Arbery was shot three times with a shotgun.

“Here we are in the South and we witnessed a lynching,” Bobby Henderson, co-founder of the grassroots group A Better Glynn, told NPR. “How far are we from 1892? That’s what’s on the line.”

More so, they were accused of chasing down Arbery in a pick-up truck as he went jogging in February 2020.

However, Jury duty notices were mailed to 1,000 people in Glynn County, about one in every 85 adult residents, in an attempt to secure an unbiased panel of 12 plus four alternates for the trial of Travis McMichael, his father Greg and their friend William “Roddie” Bryan.

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