More information about Ahmaud Arbery has been revealed as the weeks have progressed. The two men responsible for his murder—father and son Gregory and Travis McMichael, respectively—are currently sitting in jail awaiting the District Attorney’s next move. Meanwhile, S. Lee Merritt, the Arbery family’s attorney, has come forward to discuss the surveillance video that shows Ahmaud checking out a construction site just moments before he was gunned down in the street.

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“He has two uncles on his mother’s side who are electricians. He was entering an apprenticeship as an electrician. He had even gone to school and received some college [education] to begin to get his associate’s degree so that he could become an electrician,” Merritt said. “So yeah, it would make sense that he would enter this property that was commonly entered to. It’s a big porta-potty out front. It’s clearly under construction. To our knowledge, no ‘no trespassing’ sign. As you see in the video, he walks around and he looks up. He looks at the wiring, he looks at the walls, he looks at the architecture.”

Those advocating for the release of the McMichaels have argued that, as the father and son have contested, Ahmaud was a robbery suspect. It’s the belief of the McMichaels’ supporters that Ahmaud was at the construction site looking for something to steal, but the 25-year-old’s family claims the video surveillance doesn’t support that theory.

The circumstances surrounding the violent death of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery continues to baffle the masses. The young, black Georgia resident was reportedly jogging through his neighborhood in Glynn County back in February when he was spotted by father and son Gregory and Travis McMichael, respectively. They grabbed their guns, got into their vehicle, and chased Ahmaud for several minutes before gunning him down in the street.

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While this ongoing case continues to unfold, new information has surfaced. Bodycam footage from a Glynn County officer has circulated showing an incident involving Ahmaud Arbery from 2017. Back then, he was reportedly sitting in his vehicle at a local park listening to music when police approached him and asked him to get out. During the encounter, Ahmaud seemed irritated that he was being targeted when he didn’t do anything wrong, so an officer decided to tase him. It didn’t work.

“The same reason that Ahmaud Arbery was killed was the same reason he was stopped in that park: it was the criminalization of blackness itself,” the Arbery family’s attorney S. Lee Merritt stated today (May 19). “They saw a black man alone in the park and they said, ‘You know what, this appears suspicious.’” Watch the video of the 2017 incident below.

The Ahmad Arbery killing may have occurred back in February, but it’s picked up steam within the last few weeks. The 25-year-old Georgia resident was jogging when he was followed by father and son Gregory and Travis McMichael—now reportedly for four to five minutes around his neighborhood—before they shot and killed him on the road. The McMichaels argued that Ahmaud was a suspect in neighborhood robberies so they went to make a citizen’s arrest and he resisted, resulting in his death.

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For months, the McMichaels weren’t taken into custody because the District Attorney’s office asserted that they were well within the law to make a citizen’s arrest, but after the video of the incident leaked online, things began to change. They’re currently being held without bail in a Georgia jail, and while they’re locked up, their supporters continue to advocate for their release from custody.

Not helping the situation is Lindsay McMichael, Travis’s sister and Gregory’s daughter. She thought it would be a good idea to share a picture to Snapchat showing Ahamud Arbery dead and covered in blood. After being called out, she told The Sun that she didn’t mean to hurt anyone’s feelings. “I had no nefarious or malicious intent when I posted that picture,” Lindsay McMichael said. “The thing is I’m a huge fan of true crime — I listen to four or five podcasts a week — I’m constantly watching that sort of thing. It was more of a, ‘Holy s–t, I can’t believe this has happened. It was absolutely poor judgment.”

Meanwhile, the Arbery family has been made aware of the photo and once again are confronted with visuals of his death scene. “The picture Lindsay McMichael posted was very disturbing and very disturbing to the family,” their attorney, S. Lee Merritt, stated. “It actually fits the pattern of the McMichael family engaging in a weird, violent form of voyeurism.”

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