Police began arriving almost immediately after Ahmaud Arbery was shot in a coastal Georgia subdivision, finding the unarmed Black man lying facedown in his own blood while the man who shot him paced with hands on his head.
Three white men have been indicted on murder charges in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man fatally shot while running in a suburban neighbourhood near Georgia's coast.
Several US states have called in National Guard troops as widespread and violent protests over police killings of black men intensified across the country.
A young black man filmed by a security camera walking through a home under construction in December and in February may have stopped at the site for a drink of water.
Defence teams for two men charged with killing Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia asserted in separate statements Thursday that the public has rushed to judgment of their clients.
The social justice arm of American performer Jay-Z's Roc Nation entertainment company has called on Georgia officials to take quick action in the case of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man who authorities say was killed by two white men.
Charges have been laid against two white men over the alleged murder in Georgia of a black jogger, an incident which caused anger after a video emerged.
Two emergency calls made before two white men shot a black jogger in rural Georgia indicated the assailants had no legitimate reason to be chasing him.