Father and son involved in Ahmaud Arbery killing sentenced to life in prison

A father and son got additional life sentences in prison on Monday for the death of Ahmaud Arbery after a judge handed down a pair of sentences in federal court.

Judge Lisa Godbey Wood of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia sentenced Travis McMichael, 36, to life plus an additional 10 years in prison on federal hate crime charges. He will serve his sentence in state prison along with his father, Gregory McMichael, 66, who was sentenced hours later to life in prison plus seven years. Wood declined a request by their attorneys to be placed in federal prison.

A neighbor of the McMichaels who filmed the fatal incident, William "Roddie" Bryan, 52, was sentenced to 35 years in state prison for violating Arbery's civil rights along with attempted kidnapping charges. Bryan was previously sentenced in a Georgia state court to life with a possibility of parole for his involvement in Arbery’s murder.

The three were found guilty in February of violating Arbery's civil rights by attacking him because of his race and attempting to kidnap him on Feb. 23, 2020, while Arbery was jogging during the afternoon in Satilla Shores, a neighborhood near Brunswick.