Ahmaud Arbery often jogged near where he was shot, friends said

A young black man jogging through a suburb in Georgia was chased by two white residents and shot dead after an apparent confrontation.

Friends and family of Ahmaud Arbery, 25, said he was a keen runner who often went jogging through Brunswick, a small coastal town in south Georgia. His killing at the hands of a former policeman and his son has not resulted in charges being brought by prosecutors.

Mr Arbery was spotted during his run on February 23 by Greg McMichael, a retired police officer who thought he was a man suspected of several burglaries in his neighbourhood, according to a police report cited by The Brunswick News. Mr McMichael, 64, called his son, Travis, 34. They both grabbed guns and began to