MSN: “Travis McMichael, who fatally shot Ahmaud Arbery and is serving life in prison for murder, on Monday was again sentenced to life in prison plus 10 years on federal hate crime charges.
His father, Gregory, and their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan, who were also convicted of murder, were set to be sentenced Monday afternoon. A jury in February found that the three men, who are white, violated Arbery’s civil rights and targeted him because of his race. Arbery was Black.
Travis McMichael, 36, will serve his federal sentence concurrently with his state murder sentence. U.S. District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood denied a request from McMichael’s attorney to allow him to serve time in federal prison, citing a rule that typically requires defendants to serve their sentence in the jurisdiction they were first arrested, tried and convicted. “