These are the two emergency calls made before Ahmaud Arbery was killed
Police in Georgia received two calls prior to the shooting death of an unarmed black jogger — including a 911 call by the white man suspected in the slaying, according to a new report.
The recordings give a chilling account of the moments before 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery was shot dead in February.
“Hello, er, I’m out here in Satilla Shores,” Gregory McMichael, a retired district attorney investigator, said during the 911 call. “There’s a black male running down the street,” the Daily Mail reported Thursday. “I don’t know what street we’re on.”
McMichael, 64, who was with his 34-year-old son, Travis, is heard saying, “Goddamn it, c’mon, Travis.”
McMichael then gets off the call, and the 911 operator can be heard asking, “Hello, where you at?” for the remainder of the 4-minute, 45-second call, but does not get a response.
Police said Arbery was shot dead in the Brunswick neighborhood after a confrontation with the two white men.
The McMichaels, who told police they believed Arbery was a burglar, have yet to be charged in the shooting.
In a second call to a non-emergency police number, an unidentified man reports a possible burglary in the neighborhood — although it’s unknown for sure if he was speaking about Arbery.
“There’s a guy in the house right now, a house under construction,” the caller says.
The building is about 500 yards from the McMichaels’ home, the report said.
“And you said someone’s breaking in right now?” the officer responds.
“No, it’s all open, it’s under construction,” the call says. “And he’s running right now. There he goes right now.”
“Okay, what is he doing?” the cop asks.
“He’s running down the street,” he says.
“Okay, that’s fine,” the officer says. “I’ll get them out there. I just need to know what he was doing wrong.”
The caller claims the possible burglar had been seen in the neighborhood before, and had “been caught on the camera a bunch before at night.”
“It’s kind of an ongoing thing out here.”
The case has sparked national outrage following the release this week of a 28-second video of the fatal Feb. 23 encounter.
The video shows Travis McMichael getting out of a pickup truck and scuffling with Arbery, who is hit with a shotgun blast, staggers a few feet and falls mortally wounded.
Prosecutors have blamed the coronavirus lockdown for the slow movement on the case, and have cited the inability to convene a grand jury.