Did the shooter and victim have an altercation a week and a 1/2 before?
https://www.insider.com/travis-gregory-mcmichael-confrontation-ahmaud-arbery-before-death-neighbor-says-2020-5Twelve days before Ahmaud Arbery was killed, Travis McMichael had a confrontation with him in their Georgia neighborhood, one of their neighbors said.
On February 11, McMichael — who have since been arrested, along with his father, on charges of murdering Arbery — searched a construction site near Brunswick, Georgia, the neighbor, Diego Perez told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Perez, who lives near the site, received a text from the property owner, Larry English, who said a motion-sensor detected movement on the site.
Perez armed himself and walked toward the site, an unfinished house, and found 34-year-old Travis driving up in his truck, he said.
"Travis saw him in the yard and Travis stopped," Perez told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Tuesday. "He confronted [the man] halfway into the yard. He said [the man] reached for his waistband, and Travis got spooked and went down the road."
Perez said he recognized that man as Arbery.
Travis returned with his father, Gregory McMichael, who was also armed, Perez said. Gregory called the police, according to Perez, who recognized the man from older security-camera footage. At that point, Perez said, said he found no evidence of Arbery being around the construction site.
"All we knew about him was that he was the guy who kept showing up on our cameras," Perez said. "No one knew who it was."
