Key takeaways from 1st day of trial of men charged in Ahmaud Arbery killing
ABC News
The first day in the trial of three Georgia men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery ended with the jury seeing police body-camera footage of the man lying dead in a road.
The first day in the murder trial of three white Georgia men accused of chasing down and killing Ahmaud Arbery ended with the jury being shown police body-camera footage of the 25-year-old Black man lying dead in the middle of a road, his lifeless eyes fixed and his body covered in blood.
The graphic images were the last piece of prosecution evidence the Glynn County, Georgia, Superior Court jury was shown before the panel was dismissed for the weekend.
The body-camera video was taken by Officer William Duggan of the Glynn County Police Department, who testified that when he arrived on the scene on Feb. 23, 2020, Arbery was already dead.
"The amount of blood loss I observed at the scene and the lack of rise and fall of the chest, and the gaping wound on the side of his chest ... there was nothing I could do for him," said Duggan, the first witness the prosecution called in the case.
