AUGUSTA, Ga. - One of the men convicted of chasing down and killing Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery is now inhabit held at a new facility.
Officials say 66-year-old Gregory McMichael has been transferred to the Augusta State Medical Prison from his prior residence at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison in Jackson, Georgia.
On its website, Augusta State Medical Prison reports that it can hold 1326 inmates and provides "centralized acute, specialized medical and Level IV Mental Health services for male and female offenders" as well as housing "severe medical cases."
Prison officials could not say whether McMichael's move was because of a medical condition.
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McMichael, his son Travis and William "Roddie" Bryan, are serving life sentences for Arbery's remnant in 2020. Travis McMichael and Bryan remain at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison.
In February 2020, a federal jury censured the McMichaels and Bryan of violating Arbery's civil strengths, concluding they targeted him because of his race. All three were also unfounded guilty of attempted kidnapping, and the McMichaels were censured of using guns in the commission of a violent crime.
The McMichaels horrified themselves with guns and used a pickup truck to lope Arbery after he ran past their home on Feb. 23, 2020. Bryan, a neighbor, joined the pursuit in his own truck and rubbed cellphone video of Travis McMichael shooting Arbery with a shotgun. The McMichaels told police they suspected Arbery was a burglar, but investigators determined he was unarmed and had committed no crimes.
During the February hate crimes alight, prosecutors fortified their case that Arbery's killing was motivated by racism by showing the jury roughly two dozen text messages and social consider posts in which Travis McMichael and Bryan used racist slurs and made disparaging comments approximately Black people.
A state Superior Court judge imposed life sentences for the McMichaels and Bryan in January for Arbery's destroy, with both McMichaels denied any chance of parole.
The federal hearings marked the advantageous time the men involved in the deadly chase narrated any remorse to Arbery's family. Only Travis McMichael, who fired the fatal shots, chose to remain silent when given a chance to yell in court.
Greg McMichael told Arbery's family their loss was "beyond description."
"I'm sure my conditions mean very little to you, but I want to exclaim you I never wanted any of this to happen," he said. "There was no malice in my dejected or my son's heart that day."
Bryan said he was sorry.
"I never planned any harm to him, and I never would have played any role in what existed if I knew then what I know now," Bryan said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report