‘There was nothing else I could do’ – Travis McMichael

Man teamed up with his father to rundown and who kill jogger Ahmaud Arbery is shown covered in blood trying to justify the killing to cops in newly released bodycam footage

Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man was shot and killed earlier this year after being confronted by the white father-son duo of Gregory and Travis McMichael while jogging in the south Georgia neighborhood of Brunswick

Moments after he shot and killed Arbery, Travis McMichael is seen in police bodycam footage pacing with his hands on his hips

He told police there was ‘nothing else he could do’ after Arbery ‘came running’

McMichael and his father are charged with the murder of the unarmed Arbery

They deny the killing is murder, claiming it was self-defense and they thought Arbery was a burglar

Newly-released bodycam footage from the moments after black man Ahmaud Arbery was shot dead in Georgia shows the shooter, Travis McMichael, covered in blood, pacing with his hands on his hips and even being comforted by police.  
Travis McMichael told police ‘I just shot a man… last thing I’ve ever wanted to do in my life’ after firing the shot which killed the unarmed Arbery on February 23. 

Covered in blood: Travis McMichael in the moments after he shot Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed black man, in Georgia on February 23

McMichael, who is accused of murder along with his father Gregory McMichael, told police there was ‘nothing else he could do’ after Arbery ‘came running’ at him.
The father and son duo had given chase to the black jogger, cornered him with the aid of a neighbor. Travis then confronted the stranger, armed with a shotgun and in the ensuing scuffle shot at close range. 
The McMichaels deny the murder charges, saying they believed Arbery was a burglar and that they acted in self-defense. Prosecutors say Arbery was no criminal but merely out jogging and the McMichaels acted as unauthorized vigilantes.
Police released footage of Travis McMichael after he shot Arbery dead.
The footage, filed with public court documents in the case, also shows police saying they ‘can only imagine’ Travis McMichael’s distress in the wake of the shooting. 

Police began arriving almost immediately after Arbery was shot in coastal Glynn County, finding him lying face down in his own blood.  
As the younger McMichael stood shaking his head, with his hands on his hips, one police officer told him: ‘If you need to move around, do what you need to do man, I can only imagine’.    
‘I want it done right, because this doesn’t look good,’ McMichael says. ‘I mean, I just shot a man. Last thing I’ve ever wanted to do in my life.’
‘Trust me, I can truly understand that,’ the female officer replies. She later offered to fetch him water. 
McMichael had blood all over his arms and a bruise on his face where he claimed that Arbery had punched him. 

Offering his first explanation for the shooting, he claimed that there had been ‘break-ins’ including a gun theft at the McMichael home, indicating he had believed Arbery to be the burglar. 
‘We ran out to stop him, to talk to him… he stopped me coming out of the truck, running at us,’ he said. 
‘I told him to stop, stop, stop till he hit me, I had nothing to do, there’s nothing else I could do.’ 
The video also showed Gregory McMichael trying to console his son, telling him ‘it’s going to be OK’ and saying that ‘you had no choice’.   
Some of the arriving officers recognized McMichael senior, a retired investigator for the local district attorney. 
The older McMichael told police that Arbery had attacked his son and ‘was trying to take the shotgun away from him.’
‘To be perfectly honest with you, if I could’ve got a shot at the guy, I’d have shot him myself,’ he told one officer. 

McMichael senior also asked female officer what police were planning to do with his son. ‘Y’all aren’t putting him in cuffs are you?’ Gregory McMichael said.
‘No,’ the officer replied. ‘Why would he be in cuffs?’
The Glynn County officers dispatched to the shooting did not seem to question the McMichaels’ account that they were justified to kill Arbery.
In one video, an officer standing outside the crime-scene tape asks another: ‘Did he shoot him? A self-defense thing?’
‘That’s what it looks like,’ the other officer replies.

GRAPHIC: Shocking moment black jogger is shot dead by two armed white men who chased him down in a pickup truck!

After the officers arrived, one put on rubber gloves and pressed a hand to Arbery’s chest wound, while someone says that the victim still appeared to be breathing. 
‘I know. I’m going to try to do something for him,’ the officer replies. He stops after about two minutes and calls to tell dispatchers Arbery is dead. 
More than two months passed before the McMichaels were charged in Arbery’s death, after cellphone video of the shooting became public and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation took over the case from local police. 
The video, which brought Arbery’s case to national attention at the height of the George Floyd protests, showed him trying to run around the McMichaels’ pickup truck before coming face-to-face with Travis holding a shotgun.     
The video shows Arbery and Travis McMichael grappling for the gun in between gunshots. Arbery staggers and falls after the third shot hits him at point-blank range.
That video was recorded by William Bryan, a neighbor who joined the chase and was also later charged with murder.
Like the McMichaels, Bryan has pleaded not guilty to murder says he believed Arbery was responsible for break-ins in their neighborhood.  
It was later revealed that it was an open-framed house under construction that Arbery was seen entering, and an attorney for the owner later said nothing was stolen. 
‘He obviously was up to something,’ Bryan told an officer at the time, while describing how he maneuvered his own truck to prevent Arbery from escaping.
The new body camera footage also shows Bryan’s first interview with police.
‘Should we have been chasing him?’ Bryan said. ‘I don’t know.’
State investigators with the GBI arrested the McMichaels on murder charges the day after the agency began its own investigation in May. 
A judge has denied bond for all three defendants, whose attorneys are appealing the decision to keep them jailed.