Gregory McMichael and his son, Travis McMichael, reportedly told police they were pursuing Ahmaud Arbery because he looked like a suspect involved in a string of recent burglaries. However, Glynn County police are questioning that assertion because local police reports show there was no string of burglaries, and the most recent reported break-in happened weeks before Arbery was shot dead.
Glynn County Police Lt. Cheri Bashlor told CNN this week that an automobile burglary was reported in Satilla Shores, which is the south Georgia neighborhood where Arbery was shot and killed. The robbery of a 9 mm pistol from Travis McMichael’s unlocked truck happened on Jan. 1, weeks before the Feb. 23 shooting that killed Arbery.
FOX5 Atlanta found that besides the Jan. 1 burglary, there were only two other robberies in Satilla Shores from Dec. 2019 through mid-March of this year. Rifles were stolen from an unlocked car on Dec. 8, 2019, and there was a theft on Dec. 28, 2019.
Larry English, the owner of a home under construction near where Arbery was killed, said someone stole $2,500 in fishing gear from him earlier this year. However, English told The Daily Beast that he never reported the theft to the police. English said his surveillance system captured a man who appeared to be Arbery “coming onto his property” on Feb. 23, but he declined to share the clips according to CNN.
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