BRUNSWICK, Ga. ― Federal prosecutors on Wednesday moved to buttress their hate crimes case involving the killing of Ahmaud Arbery by introducing a number of racist messages sent by the men convicted of Arbery’s murder.
The evidence was presented through the testimony of FBI intelligence analyst Amy Vaughn, who read to the jury extracted messages taken from the cellphones of Travis McMichael, who shot and killed Arbery, and neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan, who took the video of the shooting.
On March 16, 2019, almost a year before the fatal shooting, McMichael exchanged texts with a friend identified only by his initials, H.B.
