Judge Rules Defendants in Ahmaud Arbery Death Will Stand Trial

Ahmaud Arbery (L) poses with his mother, Wanda Cooper, in an undated photograph. Courtesy of S. Lee Merritt

A judge ruled on June 4 that all three defendants charged in the death of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery will advance to the trial court for murder.

In a preliminary hearing on Thursday, Magistrate Court Judge Wallace Harrell concluded that there was enough evidence for the cases against the defendants to proceed with a murder trial.