Jurors were shown graphic close-up police photos Monday of the gunshot wounds that killed Ahmaud Arbery.
Glynn County police Sgt. Sheila Ramos walked the jury through dozens of crime scene photos she took about an hour after the shooting during the second day of the trial for three white men who chased and shot Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man after he was spotted running in a neighborhood just outside the port city of Brunswick.
Ricky Minshew, then a Glynn County police patrol officer, testified he saw Arbery bleeding when he arrived at the scene about a minute after the gunshots sounded, but didn’t try to render medical aid, saying he was alone and it wouldn’t have been safe. He radioed for 911 operators to send emergency medical responders.
Father and son Greg and Travis McMichael and their neighbor, William “Roddie” Bryan, are charged with murder in the February 2020 slaying. The McMichaels armed themselves and used a pickup truck to pursue Arbery after they spotted him running in their neighborhood. Defense attorneys say Travis McMichael fired in self-defense.