Ahmaud Arbery, 25, was killed Feb. 23 in Brunswick, Georgia. No one has been arrested or charged in the case, prompting an outcry from the local NAACP and others. Arbery was black and the men who chased him are white.
SAVANNAH, Ga. — A Georgia prosecutor said Tuesday that he wants a grand jury to decide if criminal charges are warranted in the death of a man shot after a pursuit by armed men who later told police they suspected him of being a burglar.
“All I want to do is get justice for my son,” said Marcus Arbery, the slain man's father, who believes his son was out jogging when he was killed. “This is terrible. It could happen to anybody's kid.” “Mr. Arbery had not committed any crime and there was no reason for these men to believe they had the right to stop him with weapons or to use deadly force in furtherance of their unlawful attempted stop,” said a statement by Merritt, who represents Arbery's mother, Wanda Cooper.
“I am of the opinion that the case should be presented to the grand jury of Glynn County for consideration of criminal charges against those involved in the death of Mr. Arbery,” Durden said in a statement Tuesday.
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