re: The video is clear: Ahmaud Arbery was killed in cold blood.

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The report said Travis McMichael, the son of a former district attorney investigator, fired the fatal shot. He was not immediately charged because he claimed that he was conducting a citizen's arrest, the report said. There have been a string of burglaries in the area and Arbery supposedly fit the description of the suspect.

Lee Merritt, the attorney for Arbery’s family, told The Washington Post that family members watched the video of the shooting on Tuesday.

“Mr. Arbery had not committed any crime and there was no reason for these men to believe they had the right to stop him with weapons or to use deadly force in furtherance of their unlawful attempted stop,” he told the paper.

The Post, citing a police report, said Arbery was spotted jogging by Gregory McMichael, the former investigator. News4Jax reported that the father called 911 at 1:08 p.m. to report a “black man running down the street.”

He reportedly told a dispatcher that he suspected Arbery was involved in recent burglaries.

The 64-year-old called his son and they armed themselves, according to the report. The police report says Gregory McMichael told officers he and his son first tried to stop Arbery by shouting, “Stop, stop, we want to talk to you!”

The father claimed that Arbery attacked his son and they got into a struggle for a shotgun. Police said the son fired two shots.

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