Atlantans head to Florida to protest teen shooting By Rebekka Schramm Updated: 42 minutes ago story image + ATLANTA (CBS ATLANTA) – Two charter buses full of metro Atlanta residents left from a southeast Atlanta church early Thursday to head to Sanford, Florida, to protest the shooting death of an unarmed 17-year-old African-American teenager. They… Read more »
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Trayvon Martin phone call contradicts killer’s self-defence claim, family says
Florida police are under mounting pressure to arrest self-appointed neighbourhood watch volunteer who shot dead an unarmed teenager following dramatic new evidence from the victim’s girlfriend. The family of Trayvon Martin, 17, say the account from his girlfriend completely contradicts his killer’s self-defence claim.
Lawyer: Girl on phone with Trayvon Martin cuts shooter’s self-defense claim – CNN.com
Sanford, Florida (CNN) — A girl who overheard part of an incident involving Florida teenager Trayvon Martin can help prove he was killed “in cold blood” by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, an attorney for Martin’s family said Tuesday.
The killing of a ‘suspicious black man’
By D. Barbara McWhite – March 13, 2012. Seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin is dead. Gunned down in Sanford, Fla., on February 26, inside his father’s gated community by the captain of neighborhood watch program, 28-year-old George Zimmerman According to the Orlando, Fla., station WFTV, police investigations indicate that Trayvon left his home to walk to the… Read more »