Three Georgia men previously charged with the murder of Ahmaud Arbery were indicted by a federal grand jury on Wednesday and
charged with hate crimes and attempted kidnapping
.
Arbery was jogging in Brunswick, Georgia, when Travis McMichael, 35, and his father, Gregory McMichael, 65, chased him in their truck and shot him dead on February 23, 2020.
William 'Roddie' Bryan, 51, who was driving behind them in another truck, filmed the incident.
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Later, Gregory McMichael, a retired police officer,
leaked the video because he wanted "the public to know the truth
," his attorney said in 2020.
The Justice Department alleged Wednesday that the men attacked Arbery "because of his race."
From left to right, Gregory McMichael, his son Travis McMichael and William "Roddie" Bryan, charged with the murder of Ahmaud Arbery. Glynn County Sheriff's Office
The incident sparked outrage and spurred an international movement to draw attention to
racism against black people jogging
, NBC News reported.
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Travis and Gregory were also charged with carrying and unloading a firearm during a violent crime, the Justice Department reported in a news release.
Gregory and Travis, father and son, had already been charged with Arbery's murder in May 2020.
Arbery, 25,
was killed by three shotgun shots at close range
after the McMichaels chased him in a pickup truck as he jogged through his neighborhood.
Arbery had been dead for more than two months when cellphone video of the shooting leaked and national protests erupted.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation took over the case the next day and promptly arrested Travis McMichael, who fired the shots, his father, and Bryan, a neighbor who joined the chase and recorded the video.
The three men remain in jail on state murder charges and are due to return to court in May.
With information from NBC News.