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Newly obtained body camera images show one of the men accused of the death of Amhmaud Arbery admitting to having repeatedly tried to prevent the 25-year-old from walking away.
In May, William “Roddie” Bryan’s attorney – Kevin Gough – said Bryan “did not participate” in Arbery’s murder. But in a conversation with an investigator on the day of the shooting, Bryan said, “I got out of our driveway and would try to block it.”
GBI investigator Richard Dial testified at the preliminary hearing in the case that the truck Bryan was driving attacked Arbery’s body at some point in the chase.
In the interview recorded on the body camera, Bryan gave investigators the video of the filming filmed on his cell phone. Bryan also told investigators, “If (Arbery) had stopped to find out what was going on it would never have happened,” and added, “Should we chase him? I don’t know.”
Travis McMichael, Greg McMichael and Bryan are charged with murder for murder in Arbery’s murder in February. Computer-assisted shipping reports and 911 calls from the Glynn County Police Department show that the McMichaels chased Arbery through his Satilla Shore neighborhood for four minutes after seeing him stay off the construction site. close to the neighborhood.
Later, the owner of the work, Larry English, told investigators he had no video or evidence that Arbery stole anything from the property.
The McMichaels told investigators they believed Arbery was the person seen in the surveillance camera entering an open house in the neighborhood. The two men say they took up arms before leaving the house and began following Arbery with his truck.
In body camera footage captured minutes after the shooting, Greg McMichael said after seeing his neighbor, Bryan, walk out of his driveway to block the Arbery Road; he and his son drove to Holmes Road to cut Arbery.
“He comes and goes here, he’s already here and he’s starting to pass in front of us, and Travis backs up and says, ‘Hey, stop, stop,’ we want to talk to you or something about that,” Greg McMichael told body camera video researchers.
“Travis comes out with the (explosive) shotgun and runs up there, and I said,‘ Travis no. Don’t shoot. Don’t do anything, and the boy turns and approaches him and they start fighting and Travis shoots him in the chest ”.
In the body camera video, Greg McMichael told investigators several times that Arbery had been seen in a surveillance video before leaving the construction house. He then told investigators he would have shot Arbery himself.
Body camera footage also captures investigators trying to interview Travis McMichael in the minutes following the shooting. The video shows the 34-year-old covered in blood, strolling through the streets of the neighborhood.
“We tried to stop him from talking to him. He ran out. We stopped and got out of the truck. He came running towards us. I told him to stop, stop, stop until he hit me. I had nothing to do, ”Travis McMichael told investigators about the body camera images.
Interactions between Greg McMichael, a retired investigator for the Brunswick area district attorney, and police officers investigating the crime scene. In a clip, McMichael asks one of the agents if his son, Travis, would be handcuffed. The agent replied, “No, why would he be handcuffed?”
The video, which was admitted to the registry as exposure during a bail hearing for the case, is being released as Gregory and Travis McMichael’s defense teams try to appeal Judge Timothy Walmsley’s order. deny bail for both defendants.
The judge’s decision to deny bail, in part, came after state prosecutors recorded a voice message from Greg McMichael to then-Brunswick District Attorney Jackie Johnson, his former chief, to seek advice. about the shooting.
In Judge Walmsley’s order against the bond, he wrote, “The call is remarkable, especially in light of the Glynn County District Attorney’s final recusal and the course he took this case until the accusation “.
In the 37-page filing, the father and son’s defense attorneys stated, “The Court does not take into account that Greg McMichael spent his 64 years of life in Glynn County.”
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