WATCH: The man who killed Ahmaud Arbery is cross-examined in his murder trial
Travis McMichael is testifying in his own defense in the murder trial over the February 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery, with lead prosecutor Linda Dunikoski cross-examining him on Thursday.
McMichael shot and killed the young Black jogger after chasing him in a pickup truck through a Georgia neighborhood with his father and a neighbor.
Dunikowski probed the defense's contention that the three men were attempting to make a citizen's arrest of Arbery, and that McMichael killed him with a shotgun in self-defense after a brief struggle.
"Not once during your statement to the police did you say that you and your father were trying to arrest Mr. Arbery, did you?" Dunikowski asked.
"No ma'am," McMichael answered. He later said he never had time to tell Arbery that
