![]() ![]() "I never thought this day would come," she added, saying her son will now "rest in peace."Īfter the judge read the first guilty verdict, a whoop rang out in the courtroom. "It's been a long fight, it's been a hard fight, but God is good," Arbery's mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, said Wednesday outside the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Ga. The high-profile shooting - and the 10 weeks it took for law enforcement to make the first arrests - galvanized racial injustice protests in the summer of 2020. The three white men who chased down and killed Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man who was jogging through their Georgia neighborhood last year, were all found guilty of murder charges. Sean Rayford, Octavio Jones-Pool/ Getty Images ![]() Travis McMichael (from left) his father, Gregory McMichael and William "Roddie" Bryan have been on trial over the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man who was fatally shot while out for a run last year in Georgia. ![]()
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