The attorney for William Roddie Bryan, the witness in the Ahmaud Arbery shooting, said Monday that Bryan had taken a polygraph test which showed he was not armed at the time that Arbery was killed.
“Roddie Bryan is not now, and has never been, more than a witness to the shooting of Mr. Arbery,” attorney Kevin Gough said during a news conference in Brunswick, Georgia on Monday night.
He said lawyers for the Arbery family were trying to persuade prosecutors to charge Bryan in connection with the case.
The shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man killed during a pursuit by a white man and his son in Georgia, has sparked a national outcry in the United States over suspicions that race played a role in delaying arrests.
Arbery was shot on February 23, but his alleged killers weren’t arrested until more than two months later, after video of the incident was posted online.
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