As the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports, jury selection began this week in the joint trial of three men charged with murdering Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia in February of last year. The report says that jury selection is proceeding slowly because many jurors have said that they believe the defendants are guilty after seeing cellphone video of the incident that was widely publicized after the killing. Keep reading for more on this story and other news. Arbery Trial. Travis McMichael, his father Greg McMichael, and William “Roddie” Bryan are shown on cellphone video, filmed by Bryan, pursuing Arbery in vehicles as he ran through a residential neighborhood. Upon catching up with him, Travis McMichael fatally shot Arbery with a shotgun. The case attracted national attention, in part because the defendants were not immediately arrested. Greg McMichael previously had worked as an investigator for the district attorney’s office. Officer Killed. There was tragic news out of Knightdale this week where police officer Ryan Hayworth was killed while responding to a single-vehicle crash. Hayworth and officer Cody Hagler were investigating the crash around 2:40am when another vehicle crashed into their patrol car. Hagler was seriously injured by the collision, as were the other motorists involved. Hayworth was the son of retired Zebulon Police Chief Timothy Hayworth. Officer Stabbed. ABC 11 reports that an Edgecombe County sheriff’s deputy was stabbed late last week while responding to a report of a man threatening a woman with a knife near Tarboro. The man is said to have charged [...]
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