DOJ Investigating Shooting of Ahmaud Arbery as Hate Crime

DOJ Investigating Shooting of Ahmaud Arbery as Hate Crime
Ahmaud Arbery (L) poses with his mother, Wanda Cooper, in an undated photograph. Courtesy of S. Lee Merritt
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating the murder of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery near Brunswick, Georgia, in February, as a hate crime, his family’s attorneys said May 25.

Arbery was fatally shot on a residential street on Feb. 23 as he ran through the small Georgia neighborhood. Three men have been arrested in connection with Arbery’s death this month after video footage of the incident emerged on May 5.

Isabel van Brugen
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Isabel van Brugen is an award-winning journalist. She holds a master's in newspaper journalism from City, University of London.
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