BRUNSWICK, Ga.—The father and son convicted of murder in Ahmaud Arbery’s fatal shooting after they chased the 25-year-old black man through a Georgia neighborhood were sentenced Monday to life in prison for committing a federal hate crime.
U.S. District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood handed down the sentences against Travis McMichael, 36, and his father, Greg McMichael, 66 in Brunswick. Both men were previously sentenced to life without parole in a state court for Arbery’s murder.
“A young man is dead. Ahmaud Arbery will be forever 25. And what happened a jury found happened because he’s black,” Wood said….