White defendant in Arbery shooting used racial slur-investigator

One of the white men charged in the murder of an unarmed black man in Georgia used a racial slur after shooting the man and before police arrived at the scene, an investigator for the prosecution in the case told a court hearing on Thursday.

Special Agent Richard Dial of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation quoted William Bryan as saying Travis McMichael uttered the slur after shooting Ahmaud Arbery in February. Bryan and McMichael are both defendants in the case. "Mr. Bryan said that after the shooting took place before police arrival, while Mr. Arbery was on the ground, that he heard Travis McMichael make the statement: fucking nigger," Dial said in testimony to the court.