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Salem
02/29/2012
Boy, 17 shot to death after altercation
Police are remaining tight-lipped about a shooting in the Twin Lakes Town Homes neighborhood Sunday that resulted in the death of a 17-year-old boy.
Sanford Police Spokesperson Sgt. Dave Morgenstern said police are still investigating the incident that left Trayvon Martin, of Miami, dead after what they are calling an “altercation” with a 25-year-old man in the subdivision.
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03/07/2012
Family of Florida boy killed in neighborhood watch seeks arrest
The family of a 17-year-old African-American boy shot to death last month in his gated Florida community by a white Neighborhood Watch captain wants to see the captain arrested, the family's lawyer said on Wednesday.
Trayvon Martin was shot dead after he took a break from watching NBA All-Star game television coverage to walk 10 minutes to a convenience store to buy snacks including Skittles candy requested by his 13-year-old brother, Chad, the family's lawyer Ben Crump said.
More... Video included...
03/08/2012
Trayvon Martin's family calls for arrest of man who police say confessed to shooting
Trayvon Martin, an unarmed African-American teenager, was shot and killed in a gated community in Florida late last month by a white neighborhood watch captain, according to police. But the watch captain, George Zimmerman -- a 28-year-old who has admitted to police that he shot the young man -- still walks free. And Martin's family is pleading for answers and demanding justice.
More... Video included...
Neighborhood watch leader who fatally shot teen not arrested; family file suit
family of a teen, who was fatally shot by neighborhood watch leader George Zimmerman, filed a public records lawsuit on Thursday in an effort to get more answers about how the boy died.
Family members said 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, of Miami, was visiting his father and stepmother last month at their home in the Retreat at Twin Lakes, which is a predominately white neighborhood in Sanford.
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Trayvon Martin, Fla. teen, killed by head of neighborhood watch
The family of a Florida teen who was fatally shot after an encounter with a neighborhood watch leader on Thursday asked the police department investigating the death to release 911 tapes that may help explain how the young man died.
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03/09/2012
Miami-Dade teen killed by a crime watch captain
Trayvon Martin traveled to Sanford on a trip with his father. The teen returned to his Miami home in a body bag.
Martin, 17, was shot and killed Feb. 26 by a neighborhood crime watch captain.
The circumstances of the shooting are still unknown, but George Zimmerman, the 28-year-old man who shot Martin, told police he shot in self-defense.
More...
Florida family seeks justice after unarmed teen shot by neighborhood watch captain
The family of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin is demanding answers after police have yet to release 911 tapes or make an arrest nearly one month after the unarmed African-American teenager was shot and killed by a white neighborhood watch captain in a gated Florida community.
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03/12/2012
Family demands justice in deadly Sanford shooting of teen
Angry residents gathered outside the Sanford Police Department Saturday, hoping to urge investigators to arrest a neighborhood watch leader who recently shot and killed a teenage boy.
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Family of Miami teen killed in Sanford demand answers
On the steps of the Miami Gardens church where Trayvon Martin’s funeral was held one week ago, his family and friends returned to demand justice Sunday night.
The Miami teen was killed in Sanford, near Orlando, two weeks ago. At the time Martin was vacationing with his father.
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George Zimmerman neighbors complained about aggressive tactics before Trayvon Martin killing
George Zimmerman has not been charged in the Feb. 26 shooting of Trayvon Martin, 17, who was walking home from a convenience store in Sanford, Fla., near Orlando. Zimmerman, who patrolled the Retreat at Twin Lakes development in his own car, had been called aggressive in earlier complaints to the local police and the homeowner's association, according to a homeowner who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
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Shooting death of Miami teen turned over to state attorney
The police chief in Sanford turned over the investigation into the killing of Miami teen Trayvon Martin to the Seminole-Brevard State Attorney’s Office for review Monday, as outraged members of the community demanded justice.
The Michael Krop Senior High School junior was killed two weeks ago in Sanford while on a trip to visit relatives.
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03/13/2012
Man on neighborhood watch shoots, kills teen
A deadly shooting in Sanford has taken a bizarre turn. Police said a man patrolling on the neighborhood watch shot and killed a teenager who was on vacation.
Trayvon Martin turned 17 just three weeks before he was killed at the Retreat at Twin Lakes Townhomes on Sunday night.
More... Video included...
Trayvon Martin shooting case goes to State Attorney's office today
At some point today, the Trayvon Martin shooting investigation will make its way from Sanford Police detectives to the State Attorney's Office, where a decision will be made about whether the 28-year-old white community watch member who shot the Miami teen last month will be charged with a crime.
Whatever the outcome, some are likely to be unhappy.
More... Video included...
Orlando watch shooting probe reveals questionable police conduct
ABC News has uncovered questionable police conduct in the investigation of the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white neighborhood watch captain in Florida, including the alleged "correction" of at least one eyewitness' account.
Sanford Police Chief Billy Lee said there is no evidence to dispute self-appointed neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman's assertion that he shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin out of self-defense.
"Until we can establish probable cause to dispute that, we don't have the grounds to arrest him," Lee said.
More... Video included...
Many demand answers on teen shot in Sanford
Most of the people demanding justice for Trayvon Martin did not know the teen, who was shot to death by a crime-watch volunteer.
But people in this community and beyond want to know how an unarmed 17-year-old who simply went to a nearby 7-Eleven for a bag of Skittles never made it home alive. They are organizing rallies and venting their anger on Facebook and Twitter.
More...
Unarmed teen's killing in Sanford deserves answers
Trayvon Martin’s family deserves answers, and so does a community rightfully outraged in the aftermath of his killing.
How can the 17-year-old Miami teenager, who was simply walking back to the townhouse he was visiting in the central Florida town of Sanford, end up shot dead with no consequences for his killer?
More...
03/15/2012
Acitvists protest outside Sanford police headquarters
Members of the New Black Panther Party gathered outside Sanford police headquarters today to put pressure on authorities who have yet to charge a neighborhood watch volunteer in the fatal shooting of a Miami teenager late last month.
Activists criticized the decision as a "miscarriage of justice."
More...
Witness: Sanford police "blew us off" in teen slaying
WFTV reporter Daralene Jones spoke with a woman who heard a Sanford vigilante shoot a 17-year-old boy as he was walking home from a convenience store with a bag of candy.
The shooter, George Zimmerman, claimed self-defense in the killing, Sanford police said.
More...
Sanford city manager says the city is working to make changes
Members of the New Black Panther Party gathered outside Sanford police headquarters today to put pressure on authorities who have yet to charge a neighborhood watch volunteer in the fatal shooting of a Miami teenager late last month.
Activists criticized the decision as a "miscarriage of justice."
Trayvon Martin, 17, was returning from the store to his father's fiancee's apartment inside a Sanford gated community Feb. 26 when he was shot by 28-year-old George Zimmerman, who was patrolling the neighborhood, police said. Four people have gathered outside police headquarters this afternoon.
More...
Interview with witness of Sanford teen shooting death
Video...
George Zimmerman's father: My son is not racist, did not confront Trayvon Martin
The Sanford Neighborhood Watch volunteer who shot and killed Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager, did not instigate the encounter but has received death threats and moved out of his home, his father told the Orlando Sentinel on Thursday.
George Zimmerman, 28, has not been arrested, something that has put him and the Sanford Police Department at the center of a firestorm. Critics say Trayvon, who was visiting family from his home in Miami, was a victim of racial profiling.
More...
03/16/2012
Family of slain boy outraged shooter remains free
The family of a 17-year-old unarmed Florida boy gunned down last month is outraged that the shooter remains free.
"It's surprising. It's shocking," said Tracy Martin, father of Trayvon, shot dead in Sanford. "It lets me know that justice is just not being served here. All we want is justice for our son. We're not asking for anything out of the ordinary."
More... Video included...
Trayvon's father: Family betrayed by Sanford police[
In the 20 days since Trayvon Martin was killed, his parents said, their trust in the Sanford Police Department has disappeared.
Tracy Martin, father of the slain teen, told reporters today he felt "betrayed" by law enforcement investigating his son's death because they have not arrested the shooter.
"It's a shame that he's [Trayvon] not getting any justice. We're not, as a family, getting any closure," the elder Martin said. "I feel betrayed by the Sanford Police Department and there's no way that I can still trust them in investigating this crime."
More...
Militia group to attempt citizens arrest in Florida shooting of Trayvon Martin
The leader of a self-described black militia group says members will go to Sanford next week to attempt a citizen's arrest on George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch leader who admitted to fatally shooting unarmed black teen Trayvon Martin.
Najee Muhammad, a member of the New Black Liberation Militia, announced Thursday that members of the group plan to take the 28-year-old Zimmerman to federal authorities since local police haven't acted.
More...
Trayvon Martin neighborhood watch shooting:911 tapes send mom crying from room
Police recordings made the night a self-appointed neighborhood watch captain allegedly shot and killed an unarmed 17-year-old boy outside his stepmother's home sent the boy's mother screaming from the room and prompted his father to declare, "He killed my son," according to a family representative.
More...
Justice Dept. investigation is sought in Florida teenager's shooting death
Nearly three weeks after an unarmed teenager was killed in a small city north of Orlando, stirring an outcry, a few indisputable facts remain: the teenager, who was black, was carrying nothing but a bag of Skittles, some money and a can of iced tea when he was shot. The neighborhood crime watch volunteer who got out of his car and shot him is white and Hispanic. He has not been arrested and is claiming self-defense.
More...
03/17/2012
The curious case of Trayvon Martin
Op-Ed Columnist
“He said that Tray was gone.”
That’s how Sybrina Fulton, her voice full of ache, told me she found out that her 17-year-old son, Trayvon Martin, had died. In a wrenching telephone call, the boy’s father, who had taken him to visit a friend, told her that Trayvon had been gunned down in a gated townhouse community in Sanford, Fla., outside Orlando.
More...
03/17/2012
911 calls show shooting of black teen was not self defense
Calls made to police show that a black teenager was terrified as he tried to get away from the white neighborhood watch volunteer who shot him, and that the volunteer was not defending himself as he has claimed, the teen's family told The Associated Press on Saturday.
Sanford police released eight 911 calls late Friday. The neighborhood watch volunteer, George Zimmerman, tells a dispatcher in the first call that he is following 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
More... Video included...
Trayvon Martin 911 tapes: Who screamed for help before shot rang out
A nighttime encounter on a quiet Florida street followed by hollering and pleas for help. Then a shot.
On Friday, the Sanford, Fla., police department released a flurry of 911 tapes from the night an unarmed black teenager, Trayvon Martin, was killed by a self-appointed neighborhood watch captain on patrol after a string of neighborhood break-ins.
The Feb. 26 shooting touched a nerve in a town that has in the past seen flare-ups of racial tension, raising the specter of racially-fueled profiling.
But when police refused to arrest the shooter, 28-year-old George Zimmerman, in the weeks that followed, those allegations became compounded by complaints that police, as one attorney said, “are letting a murderer walk the streets.”
More...
Shooter of Trayvon Martin a habitual caller to cops
The people at the Retreat at Twin Lakes had been missing bikes, grills and a few times thought strangers were casing their town houses.
When the homeowners association wanted to start a neighborhood watch, only one man stepped up: George Zimmerman, the 28-year-old who admitted to shooting an unarmed Miami Gardens teenager and who is now the focal point of a race-related scandal of national proportions.
More... Video included...
Trayvon Martin family seeks FBI investigation
The family of Trayvon Martin is asking the FBI to get involved in the investigation of the killing of the unarmed 17-year-old Florida high school student, who was shot last month by a self-appointed neighborhood watchman outside his stepmother's home.
Martin, a black high-school junior, was making his way home with a bag of Skittles and a can of iced tea on Feb. 26 when George Zimmerman spotted him, called a non-emergency dispatch number to report Martin looked intoxicated, followed him, and then minutes later after an altercation, shot him.
More...
Trayvon Martin killing's youngest witness 13 still can hear the screams
Austin McLendon hasn't been the same since that night three Sundays ago when Trayvon Martin was killed.
His mother says he's been arguing with his siblings more than usual. His 8th grade teachers have called home saying that he's become angry and lax in his schoolwork. He seems stressed out, distracted and consumed, they say.
Austin was standing less than 20 yards away from Martin when he was shot on the night of February 26.
More...
Tensions still simmer in Trayvon Martin shooting case
A tumultuous week ended with a bombshell that is sure to ratchet up the anger and tension surrounding the shooting death of teenager Trayvon Martin.
More...
03/21/2012
Witnesses in Trayvon Martin death heard cries before shot
They heard the desperate wail of a child, a gunshot, and then silence.
Trayvon Martin, 17, died Feb. 26 in a dark pathway some 20 minutes after a neighborhood watch volunteer called police saying he thought a young stranger looked suspicious. It was raining, and the volunteer thought the kid in the hoodie walked too slow and peeked in windows.
More...
Thanks,
Salem
02/29/2012
Boy, 17 shot to death after altercation
Police are remaining tight-lipped about a shooting in the Twin Lakes Town Homes neighborhood Sunday that resulted in the death of a 17-year-old boy.
Sanford Police Spokesperson Sgt. Dave Morgenstern said police are still investigating the incident that left Trayvon Martin, of Miami, dead after what they are calling an “altercation” with a 25-year-old man in the subdivision.
More...
03/07/2012
Family of Florida boy killed in neighborhood watch seeks arrest
The family of a 17-year-old African-American boy shot to death last month in his gated Florida community by a white Neighborhood Watch captain wants to see the captain arrested, the family's lawyer said on Wednesday.
Trayvon Martin was shot dead after he took a break from watching NBA All-Star game television coverage to walk 10 minutes to a convenience store to buy snacks including Skittles candy requested by his 13-year-old brother, Chad, the family's lawyer Ben Crump said.
More... Video included...
03/08/2012
Trayvon Martin's family calls for arrest of man who police say confessed to shooting
Trayvon Martin, an unarmed African-American teenager, was shot and killed in a gated community in Florida late last month by a white neighborhood watch captain, according to police. But the watch captain, George Zimmerman -- a 28-year-old who has admitted to police that he shot the young man -- still walks free. And Martin's family is pleading for answers and demanding justice.
More... Video included...
Neighborhood watch leader who fatally shot teen not arrested; family file suit
family of a teen, who was fatally shot by neighborhood watch leader George Zimmerman, filed a public records lawsuit on Thursday in an effort to get more answers about how the boy died.
Family members said 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, of Miami, was visiting his father and stepmother last month at their home in the Retreat at Twin Lakes, which is a predominately white neighborhood in Sanford.
More...
Trayvon Martin, Fla. teen, killed by head of neighborhood watch
The family of a Florida teen who was fatally shot after an encounter with a neighborhood watch leader on Thursday asked the police department investigating the death to release 911 tapes that may help explain how the young man died.
More...
03/09/2012
Miami-Dade teen killed by a crime watch captain
Trayvon Martin traveled to Sanford on a trip with his father. The teen returned to his Miami home in a body bag.
Martin, 17, was shot and killed Feb. 26 by a neighborhood crime watch captain.
The circumstances of the shooting are still unknown, but George Zimmerman, the 28-year-old man who shot Martin, told police he shot in self-defense.
More...
Florida family seeks justice after unarmed teen shot by neighborhood watch captain
The family of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin is demanding answers after police have yet to release 911 tapes or make an arrest nearly one month after the unarmed African-American teenager was shot and killed by a white neighborhood watch captain in a gated Florida community.
More...
03/12/2012
Family demands justice in deadly Sanford shooting of teen
Angry residents gathered outside the Sanford Police Department Saturday, hoping to urge investigators to arrest a neighborhood watch leader who recently shot and killed a teenage boy.
More...
Family of Miami teen killed in Sanford demand answers
On the steps of the Miami Gardens church where Trayvon Martin’s funeral was held one week ago, his family and friends returned to demand justice Sunday night.
The Miami teen was killed in Sanford, near Orlando, two weeks ago. At the time Martin was vacationing with his father.
More...
George Zimmerman neighbors complained about aggressive tactics before Trayvon Martin killing
George Zimmerman has not been charged in the Feb. 26 shooting of Trayvon Martin, 17, who was walking home from a convenience store in Sanford, Fla., near Orlando. Zimmerman, who patrolled the Retreat at Twin Lakes development in his own car, had been called aggressive in earlier complaints to the local police and the homeowner's association, according to a homeowner who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
More...
Shooting death of Miami teen turned over to state attorney
The police chief in Sanford turned over the investigation into the killing of Miami teen Trayvon Martin to the Seminole-Brevard State Attorney’s Office for review Monday, as outraged members of the community demanded justice.
The Michael Krop Senior High School junior was killed two weeks ago in Sanford while on a trip to visit relatives.
More...
03/13/2012
Man on neighborhood watch shoots, kills teen
A deadly shooting in Sanford has taken a bizarre turn. Police said a man patrolling on the neighborhood watch shot and killed a teenager who was on vacation.
Trayvon Martin turned 17 just three weeks before he was killed at the Retreat at Twin Lakes Townhomes on Sunday night.
More... Video included...
Trayvon Martin shooting case goes to State Attorney's office today
At some point today, the Trayvon Martin shooting investigation will make its way from Sanford Police detectives to the State Attorney's Office, where a decision will be made about whether the 28-year-old white community watch member who shot the Miami teen last month will be charged with a crime.
Whatever the outcome, some are likely to be unhappy.
More... Video included...
Orlando watch shooting probe reveals questionable police conduct
ABC News has uncovered questionable police conduct in the investigation of the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white neighborhood watch captain in Florida, including the alleged "correction" of at least one eyewitness' account.
Sanford Police Chief Billy Lee said there is no evidence to dispute self-appointed neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman's assertion that he shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin out of self-defense.
"Until we can establish probable cause to dispute that, we don't have the grounds to arrest him," Lee said.
More... Video included...
Many demand answers on teen shot in Sanford
Most of the people demanding justice for Trayvon Martin did not know the teen, who was shot to death by a crime-watch volunteer.
But people in this community and beyond want to know how an unarmed 17-year-old who simply went to a nearby 7-Eleven for a bag of Skittles never made it home alive. They are organizing rallies and venting their anger on Facebook and Twitter.
More...
Unarmed teen's killing in Sanford deserves answers
Trayvon Martin’s family deserves answers, and so does a community rightfully outraged in the aftermath of his killing.
How can the 17-year-old Miami teenager, who was simply walking back to the townhouse he was visiting in the central Florida town of Sanford, end up shot dead with no consequences for his killer?
More...
03/15/2012
Acitvists protest outside Sanford police headquarters
Members of the New Black Panther Party gathered outside Sanford police headquarters today to put pressure on authorities who have yet to charge a neighborhood watch volunteer in the fatal shooting of a Miami teenager late last month.
Activists criticized the decision as a "miscarriage of justice."
More...
Witness: Sanford police "blew us off" in teen slaying
WFTV reporter Daralene Jones spoke with a woman who heard a Sanford vigilante shoot a 17-year-old boy as he was walking home from a convenience store with a bag of candy.
The shooter, George Zimmerman, claimed self-defense in the killing, Sanford police said.
More...
Sanford city manager says the city is working to make changes
Members of the New Black Panther Party gathered outside Sanford police headquarters today to put pressure on authorities who have yet to charge a neighborhood watch volunteer in the fatal shooting of a Miami teenager late last month.
Activists criticized the decision as a "miscarriage of justice."
Trayvon Martin, 17, was returning from the store to his father's fiancee's apartment inside a Sanford gated community Feb. 26 when he was shot by 28-year-old George Zimmerman, who was patrolling the neighborhood, police said. Four people have gathered outside police headquarters this afternoon.
More...
Interview with witness of Sanford teen shooting death
Video...
George Zimmerman's father: My son is not racist, did not confront Trayvon Martin
The Sanford Neighborhood Watch volunteer who shot and killed Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager, did not instigate the encounter but has received death threats and moved out of his home, his father told the Orlando Sentinel on Thursday.
George Zimmerman, 28, has not been arrested, something that has put him and the Sanford Police Department at the center of a firestorm. Critics say Trayvon, who was visiting family from his home in Miami, was a victim of racial profiling.
More...
03/16/2012
Family of slain boy outraged shooter remains free
The family of a 17-year-old unarmed Florida boy gunned down last month is outraged that the shooter remains free.
"It's surprising. It's shocking," said Tracy Martin, father of Trayvon, shot dead in Sanford. "It lets me know that justice is just not being served here. All we want is justice for our son. We're not asking for anything out of the ordinary."
More... Video included...
Trayvon's father: Family betrayed by Sanford police[
In the 20 days since Trayvon Martin was killed, his parents said, their trust in the Sanford Police Department has disappeared.
Tracy Martin, father of the slain teen, told reporters today he felt "betrayed" by law enforcement investigating his son's death because they have not arrested the shooter.
"It's a shame that he's [Trayvon] not getting any justice. We're not, as a family, getting any closure," the elder Martin said. "I feel betrayed by the Sanford Police Department and there's no way that I can still trust them in investigating this crime."
More...
Militia group to attempt citizens arrest in Florida shooting of Trayvon Martin
The leader of a self-described black militia group says members will go to Sanford next week to attempt a citizen's arrest on George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch leader who admitted to fatally shooting unarmed black teen Trayvon Martin.
Najee Muhammad, a member of the New Black Liberation Militia, announced Thursday that members of the group plan to take the 28-year-old Zimmerman to federal authorities since local police haven't acted.
More...
Trayvon Martin neighborhood watch shooting:911 tapes send mom crying from room
Police recordings made the night a self-appointed neighborhood watch captain allegedly shot and killed an unarmed 17-year-old boy outside his stepmother's home sent the boy's mother screaming from the room and prompted his father to declare, "He killed my son," according to a family representative.
More...
Justice Dept. investigation is sought in Florida teenager's shooting death
Nearly three weeks after an unarmed teenager was killed in a small city north of Orlando, stirring an outcry, a few indisputable facts remain: the teenager, who was black, was carrying nothing but a bag of Skittles, some money and a can of iced tea when he was shot. The neighborhood crime watch volunteer who got out of his car and shot him is white and Hispanic. He has not been arrested and is claiming self-defense.
More...
03/17/2012
The curious case of Trayvon Martin
Op-Ed Columnist
“He said that Tray was gone.”
That’s how Sybrina Fulton, her voice full of ache, told me she found out that her 17-year-old son, Trayvon Martin, had died. In a wrenching telephone call, the boy’s father, who had taken him to visit a friend, told her that Trayvon had been gunned down in a gated townhouse community in Sanford, Fla., outside Orlando.
More...
03/17/2012
911 calls show shooting of black teen was not self defense
Calls made to police show that a black teenager was terrified as he tried to get away from the white neighborhood watch volunteer who shot him, and that the volunteer was not defending himself as he has claimed, the teen's family told The Associated Press on Saturday.
Sanford police released eight 911 calls late Friday. The neighborhood watch volunteer, George Zimmerman, tells a dispatcher in the first call that he is following 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
More... Video included...
Trayvon Martin 911 tapes: Who screamed for help before shot rang out
A nighttime encounter on a quiet Florida street followed by hollering and pleas for help. Then a shot.
On Friday, the Sanford, Fla., police department released a flurry of 911 tapes from the night an unarmed black teenager, Trayvon Martin, was killed by a self-appointed neighborhood watch captain on patrol after a string of neighborhood break-ins.
The Feb. 26 shooting touched a nerve in a town that has in the past seen flare-ups of racial tension, raising the specter of racially-fueled profiling.
But when police refused to arrest the shooter, 28-year-old George Zimmerman, in the weeks that followed, those allegations became compounded by complaints that police, as one attorney said, “are letting a murderer walk the streets.”
More...
Shooter of Trayvon Martin a habitual caller to cops
The people at the Retreat at Twin Lakes had been missing bikes, grills and a few times thought strangers were casing their town houses.
When the homeowners association wanted to start a neighborhood watch, only one man stepped up: George Zimmerman, the 28-year-old who admitted to shooting an unarmed Miami Gardens teenager and who is now the focal point of a race-related scandal of national proportions.
More... Video included...
Trayvon Martin family seeks FBI investigation
The family of Trayvon Martin is asking the FBI to get involved in the investigation of the killing of the unarmed 17-year-old Florida high school student, who was shot last month by a self-appointed neighborhood watchman outside his stepmother's home.
Martin, a black high-school junior, was making his way home with a bag of Skittles and a can of iced tea on Feb. 26 when George Zimmerman spotted him, called a non-emergency dispatch number to report Martin looked intoxicated, followed him, and then minutes later after an altercation, shot him.
More...
Trayvon Martin killing's youngest witness 13 still can hear the screams
Austin McLendon hasn't been the same since that night three Sundays ago when Trayvon Martin was killed.
His mother says he's been arguing with his siblings more than usual. His 8th grade teachers have called home saying that he's become angry and lax in his schoolwork. He seems stressed out, distracted and consumed, they say.
Austin was standing less than 20 yards away from Martin when he was shot on the night of February 26.
More...
Tensions still simmer in Trayvon Martin shooting case
A tumultuous week ended with a bombshell that is sure to ratchet up the anger and tension surrounding the shooting death of teenager Trayvon Martin.
More...
03/21/2012
Witnesses in Trayvon Martin death heard cries before shot
They heard the desperate wail of a child, a gunshot, and then silence.
Trayvon Martin, 17, died Feb. 26 in a dark pathway some 20 minutes after a neighborhood watch volunteer called police saying he thought a young stranger looked suspicious. It was raining, and the volunteer thought the kid in the hoodie walked too slow and peeked in windows.
More...