Shooter testifies Ahmaud Arbery never threatened him

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Defense attorneys for the three men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery rested after calling a total of seven witnesses. The people who testified in the men’s defense included the man who fatally shot Arbery.

in Arbery’s death has spoken publicly about the killing. He said that Arbery forced him to make a split-second “life-or-death” decision by attacking him and grabbing his shotgun.

“So you didn’t shoot him because he grabbed the barrel of your shotgun,” Dunikoski said. “You shot him because he came around that corner and you were right there and you just pulled the trigger immediately.” McMichael said he had approached Arbery because neighbors indicated something had happened down the road and he wanted to ask Arbery about it. Arbery was running in the Brunswick neighborhood at the time. He said Arbery stopped, then took off running when McMichael told him police were on the way.

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