There were a few 911 calls in the months before the shooting. This link has the reports.
911 calls, incident reports shed light on previous issues in Glynn County neighborhood
Snippet:
WTOC obtained 10 incident reports and radio communication logs from at least five prior 911 calls in Satilla Shores, the neighborhood where Ahmaud Arbery was killed in February by armed homeowners.
The reports show neighbors and the property owner called 911 previously about someone inside a home under construction several times, but the homeowner alluded to seeing different people inside the home at different times, undercutting the McMichaels’ claim that Arbery matched a description of a burglary suspect.
Of the reports, none are listed as burglaries. The only reported theft happened on Jan. 1 and involved a gun getting stolen from Travis McMichael’s unlocked truck.
So, no burglaries.
The first 911 call came on Oct. 25 and is classified as a trespass. The homeowner, Larry English, called 911 because someone was inside the home, and it activated cameras. The call lasted about 13 minutes and ended when the unidentified man walked off the property without taking anything.
The next call came nearly a month later on Nov. 18. English called again about someone inside and reportedly told dispatch, “he had the same issue with different people last night” indicating it isn’t the same person always inside. This call lasted about 20 minutes and ended with the officer changing it from a trespassing to extra watch, indicating officers would check the property.
The third call is on Jan. 1. Travis McMichael said someone stole a pistol from his unlocked truck; no suspect description is provided in the rather short CAD log and incident report.
The fourth call happened over a month later on Feb. 11 around 7:30 p.m. and shows that Travis McMichael got in his truck to see whoever it was inside the home. McMichael told police he watched the man run across several properties and back into the home under construction. Responding officers searched but found no one. In this report, homeowner Larry English is quoted as saying, “it appears the unknown male is only trespassing and plundering around as he has yet to see where anything has been taken.”
The final call came on Feb. 23, the day Arbery was killed.
The fourth call was made by Travis McMichael. That's the one you refer to here:
One report describes a light skinned black male with lots of tattoos on his arms.
So, not Arbery, but, more importantly (from the
actual police record):
According to English, it was never Arbery. The light skinned man with tattoos all over his arms "appeared to be the same unknown man from
all of the previous incidents."
Also important, that description--light skinned black male with tattoos all over both of his arms--was evidently given by Travis McMichael on February 11th, just
twelve days before the fatal day. So, Travis, at least, must have known it wasn't the same guy he saw previously. Arbery is very clearly a dark skinned man and he was wearing a t-shirt on Feb 23 with both arms fully exposed.
For Travis to have described the other guy as being a light skinned black guy with tattoos all over both arms--at 7:30 pm--necessarily must have meant both details were significantly recognizable to him at night (sunset in Georgia on the 11th was
6:17 pm), which would in turn mean, of course, that during the fateful day--afternoon no less--it would have been very easy for Travis to see it wasn't the same guy.
But perhaps MOST importantly, there is also this from the Travis McMichael complaint on Feb 11:
The videos and description of the light skinned man with tattoos all over both of his arms was evidently widely distributed. So not only did Travis see the light skinned/tattooed man, and not only did English confirm that was the guy who had trespassed on his construction site several times previously, but the whole neighborhood knew that it was a light skinned black man with tattoos all over his arms!
And considering the fact that the elder McMichaels KNEW ARBERY from the case he worked just two years ago and had evidently seen the surveillance videos and/or knew that Arbery did not fit the description of a light skinned black guy with tattoos all over both of his arms, we're even deeper into the woods now.
BOTH Travis and his dad must have known that Arbery was NOT the light skinned black man with tattoos on his arms seen inside English's home--by Travis
in person no less--the whole time they were chasing him.
ETA: So, tl;dr recap: there were never any burglaries and both Travis and his dad knew the man they were chasing in armed pursuit was NOT the man seen previously either by Travis or in the description disseminated throughout the neighborhood from English's surveillance cameras.
Which means they had absolutely no justification to pursue, let alone be armed, let alone kill him.
