Three white Americans were sentenced Friday, January 7 to life imprisonment for having pursued and then killed a young black jogger, Ahmaud Arbery, whom they suspected of being a burglar in February 2020 in Georgia, in the southern United States.
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Travis McMichael, 35 and perpetrator of the fatal shots, and his father Gregory McMichael, 66, were given life sentences without the possibility of early release.
Their neighbor William Bryan, 52, who participated in the prosecution by filming it, was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of requesting early release after 30 years in prison.