New York Daily News
May 17, 2020 7:11 PM
Gregory McMichael, left, and his son Travis McMichael. The two have been charged with murder in the February shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, whom they had pursued in a truck after spotting him running in their neighborhood.(Glynn County Detention Center/Associated Press)
A text message between a Glynn County police officer and the owner of a home under construction shows the officer telling the homeowner to contact Greg McMichael, a suspect in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, about potential trespassers seen at the property in surveillance video, according to a report.
According to CNN, Larry English, the homeowner, sent several video clips to the officer who responded by telling English to contact his neighbor Greg McMichael since he was a retired police officer and retired district attorney’s investigator.
McMichael “said please call him day or night when you get action on your camera,” the officer wrote.
Gregory McMichael, 64, and his son, Travis McMichael, 34, have been charged with murder after confronting Ahmaud Arbery, a young black man who was jogging through the area, after chasing him through a Brunswick, Ga., neighborhood on Feb. 23.
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Attorneys for both men have released statements saying there has been a rush to judge their clients and that new information would exonerate them.
The men claimed they followed Arbery because he matched the description of a suspect in a series of home break-ins, but no break-ins were reported for more than seven weeks before Arbrey’s shooting.
English’s surveillance footage shows Arbery entering the construction site and looking around before leaving. CNN reports English has other surveillance clips of people coming in and out of the construction site, including at least one which led to Travis McMichael calling 911 about the individual.
English’s attorney, Elizabeth Graddy, told CNN the people in the videos may have come onto the construction site to use water sources in the front and back of the property. One video shows a man wiping his mouth and has the sounds of running water.
Despite people coming and going from the construction site throughout the day, “Ahmaud Arbery seems to be the only one who was presumed to be a criminal,” attorneys for Arbery’s family said in a statement.
