Ahmaud Arbery's mother asked a Georgia court to impose a maximum sentence to the killers of her 25-year-old son, who was fatally shot while jogging in 2020.
"Please give all three defendants who are responsible for the death of my son the maximum punishment in this court, which I do believe behind bars without the possible chance for parole," Wanda Cooper-Jones said on Friday at the sentencing of the three men who shot dead her son.
Travis McMichael, his father, Greg, and their neighbor, William Bryan, were found guilty in late November of murdering Arbery in February 2020.
"This wasn't a case of mistaken identity or mistaken fact, they chose to target my son because they didn't want him in their community," Cooper-Jones said at Glynn County Courthouse in Brunwick, Georgia.
Arbery was jogging through the Georgia neighborhood of Satilla Shores on February 23, 2020, when he was confronted and fatally shot by Travis McMichael.
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